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456 456 ST. LANOPLEDIS St. Lanofledis, Annofledis. St. Lantia or Lantiana, Lauce. St. Lantilda, abbess of Almen^bes. 8tb century. Aunt of Oppobtuka. Laurent, Hutt, de Marguerite de Lorraine, St. Lanty. Landewednack and Lan- teglos in Cornwall bave tbeir eburcbes named after tbis saint. Parker. St. Larcia, Oct. 8, 9. Wife of Lisbius or St. Lisbe. Sbe was conyerted at Paris by seeing St. Denis, M., carry bis bead in his band for two miles to Mont Martre. Larcia declared berself a Ciiristian, and was bebeaded. Sbo bad a son Yisbius, a confessor. Tbeir names are not in any old calendar. AA.SS. St. Lasra or Laskea, Lassaba. St, Lassa, Feb. 9. Tbis name appears in some very old martyrologies as one of a number of martyrs at Membras or Membressa in Africa. AA.S8, St. Lassara (l), Lasba, or Lasbea, v., Feb. 1. End of 5tb or beginning of 6th century. Seyeral boly 'virgins of tbis name are conmiemorated by the Irisb : one was a friend of Brioid (2). Brigid and some of ber companions were on a yisit to Lassara at ber cburcb, wben one oyening St. Patrick came witb a great number of friends and followers and asked for bospitality tbere. Tbe wbole community were disturbed and perplexed, and said to Brigid, " How can we feed so great a multitude?*' «* Wbat food baye you ? " asked Brigid. Tbey answered, ** We baye only twelve loaves, a little milk, and one sheep which we bave cooked for yon and your friends to eat." Brigid said, "That will be enough for us all, the Holy Scriptures will be preached to us, and so we shall forget to want carnal food." They all bad a plentiful supper, and the fragments that remained were more than the food that Lassara bad first set before them. Afterwards she offered her house and church to Brigid as a gift. AA.SS,, " St. Brigid." St Lassara (2), Algasach (i.e. Desiderosa), March 29, V. in Meath c. 540. Daughter of Fergus. She may have been the Lassara who took the veU under St. Finnian of Clonard and his sister Reonacii, at Kilreynagb, and founded a church at Doire-mac-Aidme- cain. Colgan. Grammack in Smith and Wace. St. Lassecha, Lagseoha, or Luioh- sech, May 22. Mentioned in the Mart of TanUaghL AAJ3S., Prmier. St. Lassedia, V. in Ireland. Pro- bably same as Lassia and Lassecha. Migne. St. Lassia, Lassb, or Laisse, April 13. V. (Irisb) at Cluain Mind. AA^SS^ PrseUr. Mart, of Tallaght, St. Lateerin, or Latiebna, May l, the only one whose name is known of three saintly sisters who lived in very ancient times near Mill Street in Co. Cork. Lateerin's cabin was at Cnllin; one of ber sisters lived at Eilmeen, the other at Drumtariff, and tbey visited each other once a week. As tbeir houses were separated by bogs, angels made a firm road for them to walk on. Lateerin only allowed berself one meal a day, and sbe used to go every evening to the smith's forge for a live coal to Hgbt ber fire to cook her food; this coal she carried home in her sHrt, but one day as the smith watched her walking off with the bright fire in a fold of her dress, be exclaimed, " Ah now, Lateerin, what lovely white feet you bave ! " Tbe saint bad a single moment of vanity, for which sbe was promptly punished, for the fire, hitherto carried with impunity, instantly burnt a bole in her robe, fell down, and scorched her feet She was ashamed of berself and very angry with the smith, and cried out, " May there never more be a smith or a forge in Cullin I " and it is said there never has been. Near the site of the old church there is a holy well, to which people come from great distances to be cured of diseases, and an old white thorn outside the churobyard is said to mark her grave. Either Lateerin or one of her sisters has a well at Drumtariff which many persons think they must visit on a day in May, on pain of having no luck for the rest of the year. O'Hanlon, Fireside Tales of many Countries. St. Latina, June 2, M. at Rome. AA,SS. St. Lauce or Lauciana, Aug. 18, V. M. at Amasa in Pontus. AA.SS. Guerin.