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472 472 B. LUCY the conyent was called by her name. Pins YI. approved her immemorial wor- ship. A,B.M.y for Order of Camaldoli. Bu- oelinns. Gaspar Bombaci, Scena de* sacri e de* profani amort, Sismondi, Bepuhlics. B. Lucy (14) Ubaldini, 13th cen- tury. Sister of B. Jane and niece of B. Clara Ubaldini ; all Franciscan nuns in the convent of Sta. Maria di Monticelli at Florence. Brocchi. B. Lucy (15) Bufalari, July 27, Aug. 1 1, + in the odonr of sanctity, 1350. Sister of B. John of Bieti, of the noble family of Bafalari. Prioress of the Order of Hermits of St. Angnstine called Mantellate, particularly appealed to for those possessed by devils. Her immemorial worship was confirmed by the Congregation of Rites, July 28, 1832. il.-B.Jif. Diario di Boma, May 16, 1832. B. Lucy (16), Sept. 26, 3rd O.S.F., lived not later than the beginning of the 15th century. She was bom at Calata- giro in Sicily. When she was six years old, she went into the vineyard, unknown to her mother, and climbed up a fig tree to eat the figs. A storm came on, and the tree was struck by lightning; she fell to the ground, but was unhurt. While she stood stunned and wet, St. Nicolas appeared to her and told her he had saved her on account of her parents' devotion to him. This incident made a deep impression on her. She grew up charitable and devout. A nun of Salerno came to visit her relations in Sicily. On her return to Salerno, Lucy was easily persuaded to accompany her. This she did without the consent of her father and mother, and lived with the parents of her new friend at Salerno until the nnn died, when she joined the Franciscan sisters at St. Mary Magdalene, while her parents monmed her as dead. Eomano Seraphic Appendix to the B,M, AA,SS, Probably same as Lucy (12). B. Lucy (17), Dec. 3, supposed + 1420, O.S.D. or Order of Fontevrault. Eepresented in secular dress with a pair of eyes in a cup. Patron against sundry kinds of sickness. The same story is told of her as of Lucy (8), Triduana, and Mkdana : it is given in an old manual in a convent at Seville. Pio. Oynecseum. Baderus, De Csecis Sanctis, St. Lucy (18) of FoHgno, Dec. 9, + 1499, V. Abbess, O.S.F., gave the name of her patron saint to a convent at Foligno, about 1435. She was sent by her superiors in 1448, with twenty-two companions, to the Franciscan convent of St. Mary of Mount St. Lucy at Peru- gia, to reform it. The nuns elected her abbess in 1459, and again in 1473. She died at the age of eighty. Jacobilli, SantideW Umhria, B. Lucy (19) Bartolini Rucellai or Camilla, Oct. 29, 1465-1520. Founder of the convent of St Catherine of Siena, at Florence. Her parents and her hus- band belonged to three of the most im- portant fkimlies in Florence. She was the daughter of Domenico Bartolini; her mother was Ermellina Corbinelli. Her grandfather Nero Bartolini was Gbnfjdoniere in 1439 and held other distinguished appointments. She mar- ried, in 1484, Bidolfo Bucellai, or Oricel- larii. The Oricellarii took their wealth and name from introducing the use of a lichen (oricello) in dyeing wool. They were as distinguished for their learning as for the important offices they held. Camilla and her husband lived for many years in the vineyard close to the Loggia ' near the palace of the Bucellai. When, in 1490, Jerome Savonarola came for the second time to Florence, preaching reformation of life and inveighing especi* ally against luxury, numbers of people crowded to his preaching and services. Many took vows of chastity. Bidolfo and Camilla having no children, thought they might as well take the vows. So they had a solemn public divorce in the famous Dominican church of St. Mark, in presence of the vicar, of the Arch- bishop Bainaldi Orsini and an im- mense concourse, on May 8, 1496 (or 1494, according to Bazzi). The archi- episcopal notary drew up the deed; Bidolfo immediately became Brother Theophilus or Timothy, and took the Dominican habit in the convent of St. Mark, from the hands of Savonarola. ' Tliese Loggie or Portiei were used by the nobles to transact their business in sbeltcr from the heat, and tbe obildren played there.