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48 48 ST. AMA put away his wife, St. Plectbude, mother of his sons Grimoald and Drogo, and took, in her stead, Alpa'is, a b^ntiful girl, sister of a Frankish nobleman named Dodo. St. Lambert remonstrated. At first Pepin bore it meekly, and in- tended to recall his wife, bat at the sight of Alpais he fell again. Then Lambert advised him to undertake a pilgrimage to Home. Alpais complained to her brother that Lambert dared to call her bad names, and to say that her marriage was null. He knew the people would revolt if Lambert suffered any violence, so he tried to persuade him to approve the marriage. Lambert refused to give Alpais tibe sacrament. She stirred up her brother and several friends. They attacked him in the night and murdered him, with his two nephews and some attendants, in the church of SS. Cosmo and Damian, near Liege, in the reign of Childebert, son of Theo- doric, about 705. B0U.J AA,S8, Prseter.^ quoting Bayssium's AdditamenUi. Biog. lA^geoise, St Alpais (2), Nov. 3 (Alpayde, Elpide, Aupaies, Aupaise, Aupasie), v., living in 1180, The Martyrology of Salisbury, Nov. 3, says, "The feest of saynt Alpayde, a virgyn of poore byrth, and a keper of beestes in ye felde, yet obtayned she of our lorde ye clere understandynge of holy scripture and the spirite of couseyle, wt meruaylous prudence ; yet was she euer seke in body and neuer hole, and lyued many yeres wtout ony fode but onely the sacrament of Chrystes body, and many tymes was she rapte in to heuen, hell, and purgatory as by syght in her soule and under- standynge of the joye and payne ; she had also ye spiryte of prophecy, and was of many miracles." Mezoray tells the *same story in his History of France, in describing the reign of Philip Augustus. He also says she lived at Cudot, in the diocese of Sens, and that, in his time, her tomb was still to be seen in the parish church, sur- mounted by her effigy in stone, crowned with flowers, and the people of the country affirmed that God sanctioned, by numerous miracles, the devotion paid to this saint. Ferrarius says that she died at Ton- nere, Nov. 2. C.V.H. in Boll, AA.8S., Nov. 3. Mas Latrie, Tresor, says she died 1211, and that a contemporary MS. Life of her exists at Paris, in the Bibliothcque de T^cole dos Chartres. 1881. 253. St- Alpina, June 22, M. Mart, of Beichenau, AA,S8,<, Prefationes, iii. St. Alnina, June 19. Middle or end of 11th century. Widow and niin, O.S.B. Born Countess Chambensiu n. Married Macelinus. She was a mother and protectress of the poor, and of con- vents, and was assisted in her gooci works by her servants William and Matilda. She hung her clothes on a sunbeam. She multiplied the bread for her poor guests. After she had had children enough, Macelinus set her free to devote herself to religion. Bucelinus> Men. Ben, St. Alumna, or Domna, one of the martyrs of Lyons, who died in prison. See Blandina. St Alvenera, Aug. 25 (Alveba, Alvebena ; perhaps Amvebta and Alyiba are the same). Supposed to have been a virgin martyr late in the 3rd century. Her skull is preserved at Limeil, a little town situated where the Vezere runs into the Dordogne, in the diocese of Tarbes. She is mentioned in an ancient martyrology, in an old Benedictine monastery at Tarbes, in the Pyrenees. AAJSS, Boll. Appendix. St. Alverta, V. at Agen. Sister of St. Faith. Perhaps same as Alveneba, whose skull is preserved, with great veneration, at Limeil. St. Alvira, March 6, V. Probably the same as Elyiba, or as Alveneba. Alwerda, May 22. V. f 1^17, at Magdeburg. Lived in great sanctity and had celestial visions at the time of her death. Ditmar, Chronicle, book 7. AA.8S. Preeter., May 22, Feb. 7. Alwreda, May 23. Sister of Ibm* GABD. Led a holy life at Magdeburg. Praised by Dithmar and Laherius. Pro- bably same as Alwebda ; both mentioned among the Prsetemissi, in AA.SS., Feb. 7, May 22 and 23. St. Ama (1), March 28 (Anca, Anta^ Anus), M. at Borne. AA.SS.