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461 ST. LIOBA 461 passed throngh Schiedam in 1428. The magistrates promised her that they wonld complain to the duke, but she said that would be of no use, that God wonld judge the ofifenders ; and in fact many of them died yiolent deaths the same year. She gave to the poor all that was given her as alms, except what she absolutely required for her existence. Latterly she did not wish to suffer less, but only to die without witnesses. She died while the child who was in attendance on her went to fetch the priest. Lidwina's house was conyerted into a monastery of Grey Sisters, 3rd O.S.F. The Calvinists afterwards made it a hospital for orphans. The chapel in which her body lay in the parish church of Schiedam began to bear her name the year after her death, and a mass was sung there on her festiyid, until the Eeformation; but she was neyer canonized or even beatified by authority. She was regarded as a saint during her life, and the curate who visited her in- curred great unpopularity and was even in danger from a mob, because he doubted the reality of some of her supernatural favours. AA,SS, Baillet. Butler. Tablet, Feb. 15, 1902. H. Choquet, Saints, calls her *' the most holy Lydwin of Schiedam," and says that she had the stigmata. St. Liebe, Lioba. St. Liemania. (See Daeebca (l ).) B. Liliola lived in the 7th century. She was the abbess through whose in- fluence BusTiouLA, abbess of Aries, be- came a nun. AA.SS. 0,S.B,, " Rusticula." St. Liliosa, July 27. M. at Cordova in the same persecution as Natalia. B.M. St. Limbania, in French LiMBAGNE, Sept. 6, Y. A member of a rich and noble family in the island of Cyprus. Lest her parents should compel her to marry, she flod from home at the age of twelve, intending to go wherever the Spirit of God should direct her. She found a Genoese ship about to sail from Cyprus, and arranged to go in it accom- panied by her nurse and a few attendants. The skipper did not keep faith with them. A fair wind arose and he set sail without them ; but when he had proceeded a little way, the ship stood still and remained immovable as if rooted to the bottom of the sea although her sails wore set and the wind fair. The sailors grumbled and the master perceived that it was not the will of God that Limbania should remain in the island, so they returned to the port and found the holy virgin in a wood with her nurse, wild beasts lying quietly at her feet. They took her on board, and had a fair passage to Genoa, but when they attempted to anchor at the usual place in the port, they were driven by a furious tempest towards some rocks and were in danger of perishing. Limbania, awakened by the cries of the terrified mariners, asked what was the matter. Hearing that they were being driven on the rocks close to St. Thomas* Convent (then O.S.B., but afterwards O.S.A., whence that order claims her as a member), she bade them be of good cheer, as that was the end of her journey. Accordingly, when they had put her ashore and the nuns had met her, the prow of the ship turned round without human aid, and the vessel and crew went quietly and safely back to their accus- tomed anchorage. Limbania took the veil and led a wonderfully holy and ascetic life in the convent of St. Thomas. Finding the ordinary austerities not hard enough for her, she begged the abbess to allow her to inhabit a dark cell under the church. Here she died amid miracu- lous manifestations of her holiness. Limpen considers some of her adventures more wonderful than credible. She has been worshipped at least from the 13th century, but there is no certainty as to her date and no authentic history of her life. AA.SS. Augustinian Breviary, St. Lindru, Lutrude. St. Lintild or Linthild, Lufthild. St. Lioba, Sept. 28 (Leoba, Leob- GYTHA, LlEBA, TrUTHGEBA, TrUTHGYTH), V. Abbess, +c. 772. Patron of Bi- schofsheim. Sometimes represented holding a book with a bell on it, in allusion to her mother's dream. Her parents, Tinna (or Dime) and Ebba, were old and childless. One night Ebba dreamt that she gave birth to a church bell, which rang as she held it in her hand. Her old nurse foretold that she should have a daughter whom she must give to GK>d from her birth. The