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94 St. Mitina, Apr. 19, M. at Militina in Armenia. AA.SS. St. Mitricia,, mother of. St. Mittiana, perhaps same as. St. Mituana, June 3, a Roman martyr. AA.SS. St. Mlada Bolesla, Feb. 8, March 28, + c. 995, O.S.B., called also, , , and in religion. Princess of Bohemia. Founder and first abbess of the nunnery of St. George at Prague. Daughter of Boleslas the Cruel, duke of Bohemia (936-967). Great-granddaughter of. Sister of Boleslas II. the Pious.

Mlada was devout and learned. She went to Rome to pray at the places consecrated by the footsteps of the apostles and the blood of the martyrs. She remained there a considerable time, and learned monastic rule. When she had given sufficient proof of her good disposition and ability. Pope John XIII. sent her back to Prague to confirm the still new Christianity of her own country. He considered Mlada a barbaric name, and found it difficult to pronounce; he therefore gave the princess the name of Mary, with the Benedictine rule and the staff of an abbess, and charged her with apostolic letters to her brother, the Duke. In the letter of John XIII. to Boleslas II., preserved by Mabillon, the Pope enjoins him to uphold the Roman Church and not to suffer the Slavonian rite in any of the churches he builds. On her return, Mlada built the Benedictine nunnery of St. George, in the citadel of Prague, about the year 986. Here she presided over many nuns and helped to Christianize the nation until her death. She is buried in the chapel of St. Anne, in the great church of St. Vitus and St. Wenceslaus, which was constituted an episcopal church by a bull obtained by her from the Pope. And there she is commemorated, Feb. 8, by the nuns in their very ancient private breviary. AA.SS.O.S.B. Chanowski, Vestigium Bohemiæ Piæ. Palacky, Böhmen. Wion, Lignum Vitæ. Eneas Silvius, ''Hist. Bohemiæ''. St. Mocca, May 10, M. in Africa. AA.SS. St. Mochoat, supposed by Mr. Skene to be the same as ; but possibly Machutus, bishop of Aleth in Brittany, 6th century. St Mocholla, March 23, May 25, V. An ancient Irish saint, daughter of Damas. AA.SS., Præter. ''Mart. of Tamlaght''. St. Moderata, April 5, M. at Alexandria. AA.SS. St. Modesta (l), March 13, V. M. Daughter of SS. Macedonius and and martyred with them at Nicomedia. They are mentioned in the old Mart of St. Jerome. R.M. Stadler. St. Modesta (2), 7th century. Abbess of Habend or Remiremont. A near relation of , who appeared to her at the moment of her (Gertrude's) death. Sometimes confounded with. Hensohenius, De tribus Dagobertis. St. Modesta (3), Nov. 4, 5, 6, Oct. 6, March 7, Aug. 12, V. 8th century. Second or third abbess of Horres, near Treves. The history of this saint is somewhat obscure. Perhaps one of her numerous days belongs to her namesake the abbess of Habend. Some accounts say she was sister of St. Willibrord, a native of Northumbria, first bishop of Utrecht. She is sometimes claimed as Irish or Scottish. She has been said to have been preceded or followed as abbess by her sister, but this is thought to be a confusion with , first abbess of Horres, who may be called her spiritual sister or mother. The worship of Modesta is very ancient. She is mentioned in a litany of the tenth century. She is worshipped specially at Treves, Nov. 4.

R.M., Nov. 4. AA.SS., on the above-mentioned days. Saussaye calls her second abbess, Oct. 6.

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