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406 406 ST. INGENUA oemeterv of Calixtus, Via Appia, Rome. AA.SS' St. Ingenua (2) or Ingenuus, March 1, M. at Nicomedla. AA.SS, St. Ingenua (3 Ingeniana. St. Ingenua (4), Ingenula. St. Ingenua (5), Ingona. St. Ingenula (l) or Ingenua, Jan. 1 7, M. in Africa. AA.SS. St Ingenula (2) or Ingenua, Feb. 25, M. with more than fifty others, under the Emperor Decius. AA.SS, St. Ingenuus, Ingenua (2). St. Ingigerda, Anna 04). Sti Ingoara, or Ygora. (See LiCERIA.) St. Ingona or Ingenua, Feb. 25, M. with soYeral others, probably in Pam- phylia. AA.SS. St. Ingrid, July 1, 13th century. O.S.D. One of the patron saints of Sweden. Born at Skenning, of a noble Swedish family, and married yonng. As a widow, she set out on a pilgrimage accompanied by some very devout virgins, to Compostella, Home, and Jerusalem. In 1 282, her safe return to her country was miraculously made known to the inhabitants, who collected their silver vessels, each according to his means, and humbly offered them to the saint that she might build, with the price of them, a large Dominican convent in tbeir town, where their daughters might be piously and wisely educated. She collected a .number of nuns and pupils, to whom she set an example of obedience and all virtues. (See Matilda of Sweden.) Ingrid was canonized by Martin V. in 1414 or 1418, with St. Brynolph, bishop of Scar, and they were invoked with five other Swedish saints, as patrons of Sweden, in the prayer of the Mass for the feast of St. Nicholas, bishop of Lin- copen. Butler, " St. Nicholas of Lin- copen (May 9)," quoting Benzelius, Monumenta Suevotjothicse. Helyot. St. Inna, M. with Pinna. St. Innocentia (i), Sept. IG, V. M. Patron of Rimini, where she was born of a noble family, and put to death under Diocletian at the age of seventeen. It is uncertain whether she is the same who is honoured at Viccnza. Sticker, in AA.SS. Cahier. St. Innocentia (2), Aug. lO, M. AA.SS. St. Innocentia (3), Feb. 1, V. + c. 400. Daughter of St. Sevema, bishop of Kavenna, and of St. Yincektia, his wife. AA.SS. St. Inthwara, Juthwaba. St. Intuata, Dec. 23, V. M. K.^. According to Du Monstier, Ggnecseum, she was murdered by barbarians in Wales. Ferrarins calls her Intunata or In- TUNABA, and refers to her Life bj Bobert Buokland. St. Invelta, April 15, V. Mentioned in an old French calendar. Gnerin. St. loland or Iolanthb, Yoland. St. lone or loNAs, Nov. 24, M. in Ethiopia. Guerin. St. lonilla, Jonilla. St. Iphigenia, Sept. 21. 1st cen- tury. Daughter of Eglippus and Euphenissa, king and queen of Ethiopii. St. Matthew converted and baptized them all, as well as the other members of their family and great numbers of their sub- jects. He consecrated Iphigenia to the service of Christ and gave her the veil of a dedicated virgin, and she pre- sided over 200 nuns. Thirty -two years afterwards the king died, and was succeeded by Hirtacus, who, to improve his position, wished to marry Iphigenia, and knowing that St Matthew had con- siderable influence with her, o£Eered him any bribe up to the half of his kingdom, to persuade her to consent. The apostle assembled all the people with the new king and the princess, and explained that marriage, though base and contemptible, was not in itself a crime ; but that to take the wife of another was one of the worst of sins, and that it was an infinitely greater sin to take a consecrated nun. No sooner had the apostle pronounced i these words than Hirtacus ordered a soldier to stab him. The people were angry, and tried to burn the palace and kill the king, but were dissuaded by the Christians. Iphigenia gave all her wealth to build a church in honour of St. Matthew. Hirtacus set fire to the place where she and her nuus lived, but a sudden wind blew the flames away from the convent and burned the king's palace. He