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394 394 ST. HRIPSIMA Parta. The others were Ama, Mene- HOULD, LtJTTRUDE, PuSINNA, LiBERA, Francula, and perhaps Gertrude. Pos- sibly Libera and Francula are two names for one person. Hoylda is worshipped at Troyes, in Champagne. It has been asserted that she was Hilda, a servant of the Empress St. Helen. This would place her in the 4th century. Her story rests on no contemporary authority. She was brought into notice many years after her death, by Henry, count of Champagne, who dreamt that he fell into a deep well and was pulled out by a holy maiden of the name of Hoylda. He diligently inquired who she was, and eventually her sacred body was found carefully sewn up in a stag's hide. He placed it in an ivory shrine in the church which he built in honour of St. Stephen the Protomartyr, at Troyes, where it heals diseases, and brings rain in time of drought. AA.SS, St. Hripsima, Bipsima. B. Hrotsvith, Roswitha. St. Hruadlauga, Hadeloga. B. Hugolina, of Vercelli, Aug. 8, V. + 1200 or 1400. Represented in a scanty cilicium, barefooted, bareheaded, with long hair, carrying a crucifix and palm in one hand and a rosary in the other, at her feet a skull on a book and a shield with a flower on it, and in the distance the city of Vercelli. She fled from a comfortable home to avoid a crime, and lived forty-seven years as a hermit, disguised as a man, and shut up in a cell, lest any one should see her. She lived upon alms. On her death signs of the departure of a saint called attention to her, and her confessor, a Dominican, told her story. AA.SS. St. Huldah, Holda, or Olda, April 10. 7th century B.C. Huldah the pro- phetess was the wife of Shallum, keeper of the wardrobe. In the reign of Josiah she lived at Jerusalem, in the part called in the English Bible the College, other- wise the second ward, near the Fish gate. Josiah, in the eighteenth year of his reign, sent Shaphan the scribe to Hilkiah the high priest, telling him to count the money that bad been gathered at the doors of the temple, and to spend it in repairing the sacred building. Shaphan reported to the king that he had fulfilled his orders, at the same time bringing him the book of the Law which TTilkifth had found in the temple, where appar- ently it had lain neglected for many years. Shaphan read the book to the king, who said, '' Go ye, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book which is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fi&thers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us." So Hilkiah and Shaphan and three others went to Huldah the prophetess, who said that Qod would bring on the nation all the evU which was prophesied in the book, but that as Josiah had humbled himself, he should be gathered to his grave in peace before these things happened (2 Kings xziL). AA,SS, St. Humbelina, Humbekga, or Hnc- BURGULiNA, Feb. 12, Aug. 21. 1092-1141. Patron of Cistercian nuns. Daughter of B. Tescelin,sumamed Soru8,or Rousseau, a nobleman of Burgundy, and B. Ade- laide (7). Humbelina was bom in 10i»2, a year after her famous brother, St Bernard. When he retired to the solitude of Citeaux about 1113, with thirty com- panions, most of whom were married, their wives followed their example, and the convent of Julli, or Juilly, sometimes called Billette, was built for them. Among Bernard's disciples were his five brothers ; and when they had all gone to Citeaux, Humbelina remained at home with her father, who married her to a young nobleman related to the Duchess of Lorraine (perhaps the licentious Adelaide, converted by St. Bernard). Humbelina was attracted by the pleasures of the world, and was fond of amusement and rich clothing. She went splendidly dressed and with a great retinue to pay a visit to her six brothers at Clairvaux. Her brother Andrew, who was at the door, abused her for her worldliness, calling her a bag of dirt, a dressed-np dunghill. Her other brothers refused to see her, saying they would not come out to speak to a finely dressed woman with a train of servants. She answered