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448 448 ST. JUSTINA subject of tho most famous of Calderon's sacred dramas — The Wonder-working Magician, St. Justina (8), Juno 16, V. M. c. 407 or 451. Sister of St. Aureus, bishop of Maintz. Massacred by Attila, king of the Huns. So says Papebroch, but he gives also an old legend from a MS. at Heiligenstadt, which does not mention any woman, but only Justin, a deacon, as the companion of the martyr- dom of St. Aureus. The two martyrs were arrested by the King of the Huns, and his guards were ordered to keep them until next day. The guards were converted and let them escape. They were overtaken at Eustenfeld and brought back; and after preaching to the barbarian monarch and enduring many tortures, they were beheaded. A great number of martyrs of both sexes are commemorated with them. MM, AA,8S, Tillomont, Empereura ("Honoro," Art. XXV.). B. Justina (D) of Arezzo, March 12, + l.'Ui). Giustina Bezzola Francuccia, supposed to bo of a noble family of Arozzo, took tho veil at tho age of thirteen in the Benedictine convent of St. Mark. A whito dove was seen by many persons to fly round her head when she entered the convent. She remained there four years, but the nuns were so much annoyed and frightened by robbers that they wore then obliged to remove to the Convent of Ogni Santi. Soon afterwards Justina, with permission of her superiors, left the convent and went to live in a very small, low hut, with Lucy, a pious woman. They spent their whole time in prayer and medita- tion, until Lucy foil Ul. Justina tended her with great devotion for a year. Lucy died. Justina, left alone, suffered much from her terror of tho wolves which used to got on the top of her little dwelling and howl at night. She thought they were evil spirits. Threat- ened with blindness occasioned by her fasts and vigils, she by-and-by joined a community of religious women. She soon became totally blind. She cured the daughter of Croce, count of Aretino, of blindness, and wrought other miracles. AA,SS. Justina (lO), Jan. 13, nun in the convent of St. Martha at Milan, loth century. At her death, B. Veroxica of Binasco, in the same convent, saw her in heaven among the martyrs. She feared a delusion of the devil, as Justina had died a natural death and lived amid pious persons in no way disposed to make her suffer for her religion. It was revealed to Veronica that Justina had suffered martyrdom during her thirty years' illness, which she bore with patience for Christ's sake. Afterwards her head was found separate from her body and bleeding, and was placed among the relics of the saints. AA^SS^ " B. Veronica." St. Juthid, Judith (2) of Milan. St. Juthwara or L^thwara, July 13, Aug. 1, V. M. c. 700. Sister of SS. Eadwaba, Willgith or Wulvela, and SiDWELLA ; also said to be sisters of St Paul, bishop of Leon in Brittany. Juthwara's brother, in a fury at a fidse accusation brought against her by her stop-mother, cut off her head : where it fell there sprang up a well and a tree. She carried her head in her hands into tho church where many other miracles attested her holiness. Hor AcU are published by Capgrave. BriU Saneta. Mart, of Saliahury, Horstman, Litoes of the Women SainU of our Contrte of Eng- land. 8Uinion,Menology. Bees. Stanton and Stubbs think all these names are Cel- tic, but Kcrslake thinks they are Saxon. Jutta sometimes stands for Junmi ; sometimes for Oda, and sometimes for Odilia. St. Jutta (1) with SS. Ghisbulnd and Heuwig. St. Jutta (2), JuDiTTA or Ii>a (6), Dec. 22, V. recluse, + 1136. Sister of Count Meginhard of Spanheim. Superior of the recluses on the Diesenberg at Bingen. Teacher of St. Hildsoard. Guerin. Lechner, Mart, Ben, Menard, in^his revision of Wion. St. Jutta (3) or Judith, recluse with St. Salome, in the 10th or 11th century, in Bavaria. St. Jutta U)t IVETTA. St. Jutta (5), Judith, or Otta, May 5, -f 12G4. Patron of Prussia and Masovia.