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421 B. IZDISLAVA 421 Kilmeedy is believed to be on tbe site of part of the old graveyard, but no remains of the ancient choroh are visible. Iddesleigh in Devon and the neigh- bonring village of Meeth are supposed to take their name from this saint. Ide is there pronounced Eede, A very ancient Life of the saint, published by Bolkndus in AA,SS. O'Hanlon. Lanigan, ii. 21. Britannia Sancta, Butler. St. Ita (2), Ia (3). St. Italica (l), June 27, M. at Cordova. AA,SS, St. Jerome's Martyr- ology. St. Italica (2), June 30, M. in Africa. AA.SS. St. Italica (3), Aug. 24, M. at Antioch. AA.SS. St. Itha, sometimes Ia, sometimes Ida, sometimes Ita. St Ithelgeofu, Elfleda. St. Itisberga or Itisbubo, Ida- berg (3). St. Itta (1), Ida, Ita. St. Itta (2), JUTTA. St. Itty, Ida, Ita. St. Iva or Ives, Ia (3). B. Ivetta, IvETA, Jutta, Juettb, or Zuette, Jan. 13, 1228. Widow and re- cluse. Beprosented surrounded by poor people, in consideration of her special devotion to lepers. She was of a good bourgeois family of Huy near Leyden ; young, pretty, and rich. She was married against her will, and always hated married life more and more ; she fretted and lost her health, and wished for her husband's death. God took pity on her and turned her heart to the love of Him- self and pursuit of virtue. Five years after the marriage her husband died, leaving her with two children. She lived in the town for five years as a widow, bringing up her two sons. She gave a great deal to the poor and always received pilgrims hospitably. Then she went to serve the lepers at a house out- side the walls, on the Meuse, where there was a chapel in which the Eucharist was given to the lepers sometimes, but very rarely. She wished she was a leper because she was distressed that people came from all directions to visit her on account of the fame of her holiness and charity. She procured the conversion of her father, by her prayers and her good works. He became a monk, and afterwards left the monastery and had a cell built for himself in the church where she and the lepers were, and there he died piously. Then, giving up the office of Martha, which she had held towards the lepers for ten years, she turned to that of Mary, which is the best. She betook herself to the cell that she had helped her father to build, and had her- self walled up in it ; and there, the devil, seeing that her face was as though she would go to Jerusalem, brought against her the whole host of Amalek and bade her remember the fiesh-pots of Egypt, but she was assisted by the Yibgin Maby. Her elder son became a Cistercian monk and abbot of Orval in Luxemburg ; the younger was wicked and dissolute, but in consequence of the prayers of his pious mother, he was converted. Many other instances of her good influence on individuals who knew her are recorded in her Life, also her prophecies, tempta- tions, and miracles. Once she ardently desired to receive the Holy Communion, and begged the priest to give it to her. He refused, and she fell asleep, and the Apostle St. John appeared to her and gave her the Holy Sacrament. She told this to her confessor, who only revealed it after her death. She died in her cell close to the Lazaret at Huy. AA.SS,, from a contemporary Life by a monk who knew her well. Cahier, Ermite. Collins, Cistercian Legends. Menard. Henriquez. St. Iwy, EwE, or Eve, a Cornish saint, perhaps same as Ia (3). Eckenstein. Baring-Gould. B. Izdislava, V., O.S.D., of the family of the Barons of Berkensium, gave money to build a Dominican mon- astery. Le Mire, Behus Bohemicis.