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56 56 ST. ANGADRESIMA Oneglia. 8th century. Friend of St. Silyinus, a legionary bishop, whose office was to preach to the heathen ; he died at Anchy, in Artois, 718, and she took care of his body and buried it. She is mentioned by Henschenius, in the Life of St Silvinm, Feb. 17, and is there said to be the wife of Asquarius and mother of Siccidis, who is probably St. Sicildis. Mas Latrie, Tr^sor, says Aneglia was wife of Adalsque, and is honoured at the Fountain of Besse. St. Angadresima (l), March 17, Oct. 14, June 27 (Andragasima, Andra- GASTNA ; in French, Angadreme, Anga- BEME, or Gadron ; in the Martyrology of Salisbury, Gawdrysyve), V. "fc. 695. Abbess of Oroer, near Beauvais. Patron of Beanvais. Eepresented marked with small-pox, carrying coals in her apron. Daughter of Eobert, keeper of the seals under Clothaire IIL,and his mother St. Bathilde. Eobert betrothed Angadre- sima to Ansbert or Austrebert, son of Swivin, lord of Vexin. As both Ansbert and Angadresima wished to remain un- married from religious motives, they agreed that, if compelled by their parents to marry, they would pray to be pro- serred from any love for or human interest in each other ; Angadresima also prayed that she might lose whatever was attractive in her. She was soon after- wards dreadfully disfigured by small- pox or leprosy, which she regarded as a good excuse for breaking off her engage- ment without disobeying her father. Eobert now took her to Eouen to receive the religious veil from St. Onen, the bishop. Not long after her profession she was ordered to bring some live coals to light the candles. She brought them in her apron, which was not burnt ; this miracle is represented in her pictures. She soon became the spiritual mother of many nuns, whom she edified and governed for 30 years, in an abbey which her father built for her at Oroer, near Beauvais. Her life is gathered from that of St. Ansbert, who was to have been her husband. AA.SS, Baillet. Bncelinus. Cahier. In 1473, in the reign of Louis XI., the city of Beauvais was miraculously defended against the Burgimdian army by this saint ; and ever after, on her festival, women and girls took precedence of men in the procession. Monstier, Oynecseum, March 27. St. Angadresima (2), Andraoa- siMA, Angareme, Angabisha, etc. 7 th century. Abbess of Arluc, near Antibes. Migne. St. Angela (l) of Bohemia, July G. 12th century. Carmelite nun. Daughter of Wladislaus II., duke of Bohemia. Sister of Ottocar, first king of Bohemia, and B. Agnes of Bohemia. Angela had divine revelations, and wrote several books, one on the Venerable Sacrament ; hence, in her picture in the church of the Carmelite fathers at Prague, she is represented holding a book. (Chanowski, Vestigia Bohemise Pise,) A legend, from the Speculum Carnielitanum in the AA.SS. is as follows : — St. Angela op Bohemia, V., daughter of a king of Bohemia in the 12th cen- tury, supposed to be Ladislaus II., was bom at Prague and brought up in a convent, from which she escaped in men's clothes, to avoid being given in marriage to the son of the king of Hungary, leaving a letter to tell her father that she would belong only to Christ. Her first resting-place was tho house of some infidels, whom she con- verted and taught to read. In the depths of a dreary forest she was hospitably received by some barbarians, who engaged her for a time as their secretary. Pro- ceeding on her travels, she met a company of people in a wood, one of whom, a soldier, was going to Jerusalem by way of Constantinople, and gave her his protection as far as the latter city. In the church of St. Sophia there, Christ appeared to her and gave her a Latin book of prayers, which were those of tho order of the Brothers of our Lady. She next went with the soldier to Jerusalem, where a woman gave her clothes, and took her to the prioress of the Sisters of our Lady, who had seen her in a dream, and having looked at her book and found her to be the same as the woman of her vision, received her into the sisterhood. Hero, before long, she became prioress, and so continued for 35 years. During that time, by