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71 B. ANNA 71 del Lido. Throngli this man ho re- solved to revive the great and popular funilj BO tragically cut o£f, and applied to Pope Aleiuinder III. for permission to marry his own daughter to Niccolo Giustiniani. The Pope freed Niccolo from his monastic vows, and commanded him to restore his family to its proper place in Venice by marrying Anna Michieli. It soon became evident that the ships which had returned had brought the plague with them; hundreds of persons died within a few days. Terror reigned. The fickle populace again laid all ,the fault on their doge, and mur- dered him in a tumult. As soon as they had done it, they repented, and remembered how good he had been. Niccolo and Anna spent many years to- gether, rich in this world's goods, and richer in good deeds. They had six sons and three daughters. Eventually Niccolo returned to his monastery, and Anna went to live in the magnificent nunnery of St. Adrian, which she had built at Amiano ; and there she spent the rest of her life in fastings, prayers, and good works. The pictures of Nic- colo and Anna aro kept with groat vene- ration in the church of St. Nicholas, in token of their sanctity. Many miracles have been wrought by both saints. Life of -B. Lorenzo Giustiniani, their descen- dant, who died Jan. 8, 1455, written by Bernardo Giustiniani, and given in the AAJSS,^ Jan. 8. The story is told with many interesting details by Lebeau, HUtoire du Bas Empire^ xix., xx. of the old edition, xvi., xvii. of the new (1833). Daru, Histoire de Venise. Fougasses, Hisuiry of Venice, " Englished " by W. Shnte (1612). Wion, Lignum Fi/as, who ealls Anna " Duchess of the Venetians." Mas Latrie, Tr^9or. Buoelinus, Men. Ben.j Nov. 21. Light is thrown on the customs of Venice at the time, and the status of the families of Michieli and Giustiniani by Molmenti, Storia di Venezia nella Vita Privata, The Life of Anna is promised by the Bollandists when they come to her day. B. Anna (17), March 6. f 1-^- Of the noble family of Frankeuhofen. Cistercian nun at Seefeld ; succeeded B. ToDECA as abbess. In 1241 Conrad of Winterstettin built the nunnery of Paindt, near the monastery of Weingar- ten, in the ancient diocese of Constance, and thither Anna moved as abbess. She died 1244, and was succeeded by Ermengard, daughter of the founder. Bucelinus, Men. Ben. Migno, Diet, des Ahhayea. Monstier, Gynecseum, The accounts of the situation, etc., of the nunneries do not quite agree. B. Anna (18), Amioia. St. Anna (l^)* Buohess of Silesia, bom at Prague, 1204. f 1246. Daughter of Premysl Ottokar 1., first king of Bohemia (1198-1230), by his second wife, Constance of Hungary. St. Agnes OF Bohemia was her sister, St. Elizabeth OF HuNOABY her cousin, St. Abdbla her half-sister, St. Hedwio her mother-in- law. Anna married, in 1216, Henry XL, the pious duke of Silesia ; he was killed at Legnitz, 1241, in a great battle against the Tartars, where, although the Christians were defeated, overpowered by numbers, they made such a good fight against the heathens, and inflicted on them such heavy loss, that the tide of their invasion was effectually arrested. St. Anna, St. Hedwig, and all the nuns of Trebnitz were in the fortress of Chrosna when the battle was fought. Anna buried her husband in the Fran- ciscan convent which he had begun to build at Breslau, and which she fLoished after his death. She had six sons and three daughters. For some particulars of the Tartar invasion and the battle of Legnitz, see St. Hedwig, duchess of Silesia. Dlugosch, Historia Pdonica. Palacky, Geschicte von Bohmen. Stenzel, Scriptores llerum Silesise, ii. 127, etc. A. Knoblich, Herzogin Anna von Sckletien^ Breslau, 1 865. Anna is called ^* Blessed " by several writers, and ** Saint " by Mas Latrie, Tr^sor, p. 905. B. Anna (20), April 8, of Sohlussel- berg. 13th century. Daughter of Conrad, baron of Schlusselberg, near Bamberg, in Franconia. Anna became second abbess of the Cistercian house of Schlusselberg, and, being a woman of many virtues, received sundry privileges from her brother-in-law Leopold, bishop of Bamberg. When she was dying she directed that her grave should be left