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459 ST. LIBARIA 450 Balyation of their Bonis, was content with her answer, and sent her to the prison where they were immured. She there exhorted them to despise the advantages of this world and to hraye tortures and death for the sake of their Master. When they were again hronght before the governor, he was surprised and ex- asperated to find them more resolute than ever. He had them hung on a tree and their limbs dragged with pul- leys. Under this torture, they thanked God and encouraged each other. They were then burnt alive. Two scrib^ whose duty it was to write the account of their trial and execution, were con- verted by the sight of their constancy, as well as a woman named Jonilla, who left her baby and ran to the judges declaring herself a Christian and a candidate for martyrdom. She was put to death with Leonilla and the two scribes. The priory of St. Geomes, near Langres, is said to mean Saints Jumeaux. B,M. AA.SS. Baillet. St. Leonis, Leonides. St. Leontia, Leonice, or Leontina, March 1, Dec. 3, 6, V. M. 484. Daughter of St. Germanus, bishop perhaps of Peradamus where they lived. (^See DioNYsiA (5). ) B.M., Dec. 0. AA.SS., March 1. St. Leotheria, LissiiiKE. St. Leovilla, Leomilla. St. Leptina, Oct. 2G in the Greek Church. Martyred by being dragged on the ground. AA.SS. St. Lerama, Calliope Lekama. St. Lerthana, March 29, + 7G8, abbess of Kildare. Colgan. St. Leta, LiETA. St. Lethere, Lis^i^re. St. Leuba, Lioba. St. Leuchtel, Leuchtild or Leu- CHILDIS, LuFTHILD. St. Leudeberta or Landeberta, Dec. 7, Jan. 2, Aug. 27, a nun under Fara, 7th century. St. Peter appeared to Leudeberta. AA.SS, 0,S,B, Bucelinus. St. Leunuca or Leununcula, Eunica. St. Leupherina. Honoured in the diocese of Vannes. Mas Latrie. St. Leurinne, Lheurinna, or Le- VERINA. Honoured in Poitou. Mas Latrie. St. Leutica, Lauda. St. Leva, Lea. St. Levan, Oct. 27. Supposed same as Lewine. AA.SS., " la and Breaca." St. Leverina, Lkdrinne. St. Lewine or Levinna, July 22, 24, V. M. A British maiden, said to be of royal birth, supposed to have suffered martyrdom from some pagan Saxon in the 7th century. Her body was kept in a monastery at Seaford, near Lewes in Sussex, and translated in 1058 to Berg St. Winoo in Flanders, where her feast is observed, July 24. The abbey was burnt and her body in it, 1658. The history of the translation and of the miracles then wrought was written by Drogo, a contemporary historian. These miracles are recorded also by the Cal- vinist century writers of Magdeburg. AA.SS. Migne. Butler. Brit. Sand. Martin. St. Lheurinna, Leurinne. St. Lia, Leah. St. Libana or Libhan, Dec. 18, 6th century, V. honoured in Ulster. She was of a princely family and had for her spiritual director St. Comgoll of Bangor. Lanigan. St. Libania, Aug. 18, widow. Per- haps the same as Lubetia. When Helex (3) found the cross of Christ at Jerusa- lem, she found also the crosses of the two malefactors who had been crucified with Him. It was impossible to tell which was the sacred relic, until it was discovered that one of the three possessed miraculous healing powers, shown in the first instance by raising a dead person to life. That person is said in some forms of the legend to have been a Jew, who at once became a Christian, and eventually Bishop of Jerusalem. Other accounts say it was a Jewess, named Libania, but it is not certain that she is the person commemorated on Aug. 18. AA.SS., Prseier. St. Libaria, Livaria, Liberata, Li- 6ERTA, LiBRARiA, or LiBERiA, Oct. 8, per- haps 4th century. Patron of Conde sur Mame. One of five saintly sisters of Toul, Gertrude or Gontrude, Manna, Oda, and Susanna. Their brothers, SS. Eucharius and Elipins, were martyred in the diocese of Toul, in the reign of