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398 808 ST. HYDRA the OblatoB of St. Mary. She was chris- tened Clarissa, and was the daughter of Mark Antony Mariscotti, count of Yigna- nello, and Octavia Orsini. She was bom at Yiterbo. When she was about four- teen, she fell into a deep well, and catch- ing hold of a beam or rope, hung for a long time in groat fear and danger, being at last rescued by a servant. This acci- dent made her serious and religious for a time, but she soon became worldly, and was very envious because her younger sister was betrothed before her. A mar- riage was arranged for her, but her in- tended husband died, and she became very melancholy, and her parents thought it advisable for her to take the veil in the convent of St. Bernardino, of the Third Order of St. Francis ; but she carried her worldliness into the cloister, indulging in luxury and pride of birth, wearing ornaments, and sacrificing everything to her vanity, to the annoyance and scandal of thQ other nuns. This went on for ten years, and then she had a serious illness, during which she repented, and on her recovery seemed to be a different woman. showing groat humility and charity, aud devoting herself heartily to the care of the sufferers in a pestilence which occurred about that time. She procured the establishment of two associations, which she directed, and which still exist at Yiterbo. One was to procure assistance for poor ladies and gentlemen who were adiamed to beg, and for prisoners; the other was to afford an asylum to aged persons. The members of these associations wore called Oblates of Mary. Her nephew, Cardinal Mariscotti, solicited her beatification, which was decreed by Benedict XUI. in 1 726, and she was solemnly canonized by Pios YIL in 1807. B.M, Jubin, Fondatrices. Baring Gould, from the Bull of her canonization. Diario di Bamay Feb. 13, 1830. Martin. St. Hydra, Dec. 8, died at Siene, in Egypt. Gu6rin. B. Hym^ne, Imaine. St. Hypomona, April 5 and 0, M. with Amphian and Edesius. Grxco- Slav, Calendar, St. Ia(l),JA. St. la (2) occurs several times in the Grseco-Slavonic Calendar y and is sup- posed to be in some cases an abbreviation of Makia ; in others, of Eudocia. St. la (3), Oct. 27 (Eye, Ias, Bis, Iia, IiEs, Ita (2), Itha, Iva, Ives, Hia, Hya, TiA, Ye), commemorated with her brother, St. Uni, Feb. 3. 5th century. St. Iwy, or Ewe for Eve, is perhaps the same, la was daughter of an Irish chief, and disciple of St. Barr or Fingar. She ought to be patron of persons who miss their trains or ships, for when SS. Fin- gar and PiALA left Ireland for Cornwall, St. la intended to accompany them, but when she arrived on the seashore, she saw the ship already a good way out to sea. Much grieved, she raised her tear- ful eyes to heaven, and prayed for help, and when she turned them again on the sea, she observed a little leaf floating at the edge of the water. She touched it with her staff, and lo I it grew large and firm before her eyes, until she could step on to it, and it bore her safely across to the bay of Hayle, in Cornwall, where she landed, and where her friends, St Fin- gar and St. Piala, with their 777 ship- mates, arrived presently after her. She applied to Dinan, one of the great men of Cornwall, for a place to live in. He built her a church in St. Ives Bay. The town around this church was called for centuries Pendinas, but gradually its name was changed to St, les^ and then St. Ives. Other places in England called St. Ives are supposed to be called — two after a Persian missionary bishop, about the 7 th century, and another after St. Ives or Yves, bishop of Chartres, 12th century; but according to Miss Arnold Forster, the Cornish saint was venerated and her parish called St. Ives long be- fore the coming of these foreign bishops. The parish of St. Ewe, in Cornwall, which was spelt, in the Middle Ages, Iwy, and is pronounced Eve, is perhaps another