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404 404 ST. IDDA her among the saints of Belgium. Wion, Lignum Vitas, p. 520. Caiier. St. Idda, Ida. St. Iduberga, Ida. St. le, Ja. St. les, Ia (3). St. Igalute or Ijaluta, Jan. 11. Honoured by the Ethiopians. Gu^rin. St Iherotis, Herotes. St. lia, or IiEs, Ia (3). St. Ijaiuta, lOALUTE. St. lid, Matilda. St. Ildaura, Ilduarda. St. Ildemerca, Hildemar. St. Ilduarda, Dec. 20 (Ildaura, Ilduara, Iluarda), 10th century. A noble matron of Spain, married to Gun- ther de Marendez, and mother of St. Bodesuind, bishop of Duma. When she became a widow she built a nunnery near the monastery of St. Saviour of Cella Nova, in Galicia, took the veil, and lived under the rule of her daughter Adosina, the abbess. Ilduarda was buried there, in the episcopate of her son, and is honoured among the saints of Spain. Menard, who refers to Tepez's Chronicle O.S.B., ad. ann. 935, cap. 4. St. Illuminata (l), Nov. 29, V. M. at Todi under Mazimianus. R,M, Gynccaeum, BB. Illuminata (2) di Giovanello and Chiaretta, April 27, + 1320, O.S.A. Lay-sisters under St. Clara (4) of Montefalco. B, Illuminata (3) Bembi, com- panion of St. Catherine of Boloona. Called "Beata" by Arturus and by Masino, Bolonia illustrata. St. Iluarda, Ilduarda. St. Image, Sept. 8 (Imagine, Imago, Imoge, Imogene), is probably some famous picture. Cahier, "Synonyms." (See Veronica (1).) The village of Ste. Imoge, in Champagne, is supposed to take its name from some ancient statue or picture of the B. V. Mary formerly honoured there, as the fete is on the day of her nativity. Chastelain. B. Imaine, Himmana, or Hymkne de Loss, Jan. 20, + 1270. Fifth abbess of Salzinne and afterwards of Flines. Cistercian. Daughter of Henry de Loss, of the family of the Counts of Hochstadt. He had renounced the ecclesiastical state in hope of succeeding Connt Louis n., who was childless. He married Matilda, sister of the Count of Viane, and widow of Lothaire, count of Hoch- stadt. Imaine, only child of MatUda by Henry de Loss, lost her parents very young, in 1218, and was placed in the monastery of Salzinne. When St. Juu- ANA (21) fled to Namur, Imaine interested herself about the matter, and wrote several times to Li6ge to obtain an allowance for her out of Juliana's own property, and finally procured her shelter in her (Imaine's) monastery at Sal- zinne, 1256. The Empress Mary, wife of Baldwin de Courtenay, the last of the Latin emperors of Constantinople, wai trying unsuccessfully to govern the county of Flanders for her absent husband. She was disliked by the people, and a measure of her nnpopn- larity reflected on Imaine as her friend, The convent of Salzinne was destroyed in a riot and the nuns dispersed. Imaine procured them homes in other monas- teries, but she herself would not leave St. Juliana. They went to Fosse and lived in a small house formerly occupied by a recluse. Juliana died there, 1258, in the arms of Imaine, who, in 1261, transported her body to the Abbey of Villers, according to her own wish. Imaine was made Abbess of Flines, which had been founded about twenty yean before. Her half-brother Conrad of Hochstadt, archbishop of Cologne, sent her the relics of some of the 11,000 virgins. Bam, Hagiologie National de Belgique. St. Imata or Imeata, Oct 27, + 1360. 3rd O.S.D. Eopresented as a Dominican nun holding in one hand a crucifix between two lilies, in the other a book on which is a heart upside down. A hundred years after the institution of the Order of St. Dominic, eight monks left Kome to visit Jerusalem and to go farther for the salvation of souls. They took with them an elderly woman of the Third Order, of great wisdom and piety. They all endured great hardships on the journey. They visited the Holy Sepul- chre and afterwards went to India. The brothers built a convent for men, and Imata built one for nuns. It was at