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77 B. ANTONIA GUAINERI 77 lady put to the sword with her twelve servants. Henscbenius. Boll., AA,SS. St Anthusa (7), mother of St. Arthellai's. B. Anthusa (8), Jan. 27. 4th cen- tury. Mother of St. Chrysostom. Stadler. St. Antia, Anthia. St Antiga, Feb. 22, M. at Nico- media, with §S. Victorina, Paula, Emb- RiTA, Antoniana, Dativa, Bogatiana, Ubbaka, Maxima, Marina, Matbona and her daughter Peregrina, Secundula, JusTA, Castula, Marcellina, Casta, DONATULA, LiBOSA, FlAVIA, DoTA, FuR- NATA, and Ebgina (3). Many Christians were martyred at Nicomedia, in Bithynia, At different times. Ten thousand are commemorated on one day in the Greek calendars, and 3628 on another. Whether the few whose names are here preserved are amongst the same, or were slain at other times, we do not know. Hon- schenios. AA.SS. St Antigone (l), Feb. 27, M. at Bome. AA,SS. St Antigone (2) of Pannonia, Feb. 28, M. Perhaps the same as the above. Antilia, Anthilia. St Antiquiora, Ang. 31, M. at Ancyra, in Galatia. AA^S. SS. Antonia (l) and TertuUa, April 29, W. MM. Consecrated virgins, put to death at Cirtha, in Nnmidia, with SS. Agapios and Secandinns, bishops, who had long been in exile there ; also St Aemilianos, a soldier ; and a woman with her twin children. B.M. AA.SS. St Antonia (2), May 4, M. at Nico- media, in Bithynia. Mentioned in the Mariyrology of St. Jerome. She was hong np by one arm for three days, kept in prison for two years, and then bnmed to death. Henschenins thinks she may possibly be the same as Antonina (1). B.M. AA.SS. St Antonia (3). One of the martyrs of Lyons, who died in prison. See Balbina. St Antonia (4), Jnne 4. Com- memorated with Tbophonia. AA.SS. St Antonia (5), April 12, M. AAJiS. B. Antonia (6), Antoinette, or Antonietta, Feb. 28, April 7. 1401- 1472. O.S.F. A native of Florence. She was still very young when left a widow with one son. She took the veil in Florence, in the convent of Sant* Onof rio, of cloistered nuns of the Third Order of St. Francis. B. Angelina CoRBARA was founder and superior of all the cloistered tertiaries. In 1430 she set Antonia over her head convent of St. Anna, at Foligno, where she formed a great friendship with B. Paula. In 1433 Angelina sent them to Aquila to found two convents of the observance. Antonia became superior of St. Eliza- beth's. While she was there Angelina died, and was succeeded by B. Mar- garet of Foligno. Through St. John of Capistrano, vicar-general of the ob- servance, who visited Aquila at the time, Antonia obtained the monastery of Corpo di Cristo, or the Holy Eucharist, which had just been built at Aquila for another order. She settled there in 1447, with twelve nuns of her order, to follow, in all its rigour, the first rule of St. Clara. In this monastery Paula died. Antonia soon had to enlarge the house. Her son and her other relations came troubling her with their worldly affairs, which was a trial to her. She ruled here for seven years, and died Feb. 28, 1472, aged seventy -one. Her body lay in the church there for over four centuries, with the limbs supple, the eyes open, and every appearance of life. In 1847 Pius IX. approved her im- memorial worship. Her feast is only kept in her own order. A.B.M. Bomano- Seraphic, April 7. Jacobilli, Saints of Umhria. Leon, Aureole de Sainte Claire. Collin de Plancy gives her day as Feb. 20. B. Antonia (7) Guaineri, Oct. 27. O.S.D. 1407-1507. Nun in the Do- minican convent of St. Catherine the Martyr, in Brescia. While very young, she was reproved one day by the choir- mistress for not singing loud enough. Either not understanding how to modu- late her voice, or being a little obstinate, she did not obey. To teach her sub- mission, she was stripped down to her waist, and whipped in presence of the nuns in the chapter. She became a