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105 ST. NINNOC 105 so. These holy women, with the ap- proYiJ of the Patriarch, seclnded them- selves from the society of Constantinople, which was extremely frivolons and lux- nrions, leading a life of great asceticism and spending their time in prayer, manual labonr, and the care of sick women. Chrysostom gave great offence to the Empress Endocia, and his friends were involved in the persecution which befell him in consequence. Nicarete was reduced to comparative poverty, but she was so good an economist that she continued to provide for the wants of the community, and always had some- thing to give to the poor. When Chry- sostom was banished in 404, she left Constantinople rather than acknowledge the new patriarch, Arsacius, who was set up in his stead. She was then an elderly woman. The date and place of her death are not known. B.M. Butler. Smith and Wace. Massini. St. Nicas or BiccA, June 28, M. in Airica. AA.SS. St. Nice (1), M. (See Chariessa.) St Nice (2), April 25, M. with SS. Eusebius, Neo and others. Martinov. St. Nicea, Niceta. St. Nicerata, Nicarete. St. Niceta (l ), NiCiEA or Nicea, and St Aquilina, July 24. c. 250. MM. The names Galonioa, Callinica, Gal- LENiA are sometimes substituted for Ni- ceta, sometimes for Aquilina. They were either two women who were leading a sinful life, or two soldiers, at Amon or Samon, in Lycia, in the time of the Emperor Decius. They were employed to turn away St Christopher from the Christian faith: instead of which, he converted them both, and they forsook their bad ways, gave their ill- gotten gains to the poor, and were put to death for the faith, by being transfixed with awls from the feet to the shoulders until their martyrdom was accomplished. ■AA,SS. Smith and Wace. St. Niceta (2), Nicea, or Nitica, July 29, M. in Africa. AA.SS. St Nicetria, Dominica of Tropea. St Nicia (l), April 28, V. M. in Africa. Mentioned in the oldest exist- ing copies of St. Jerome's Martyrology. AA^S. St. Nicia (2), May 23, M. in Africa. AA,SS. St. Nicole, 8th century. Abbess of Almeneches. Laurent, Hist, de Margue- rite de Lorraine. St. Niconia, May 8, M. at Constanti- nople with St. Acacius. (See Agatha (2).) AA.SS. St. Nida, Feb. 24, M. at Nicomedia, with forty-six others. AA.SS, St. Niemyne, Nonna, mother of St. David. St. Nimmia, Nimonia. St. Nimonia, Nimmia or Memmia ; in French, Ninge, Aug. 1 2, 304. M. with SS. Juliana, Diomeda, Leonides, Agape, and about twenty-five others, either the same day as St. Afra of Augsburg or a few days afterwards, on the same day as her mother St. Hilabia and the three maid-servants. AA.SS. B.M. Gu6rin. SS. Nina (1-8), MM. AA.SS St Nina (9), Nino. Nine Maidens, July 12, about 716. There appear to have been two sets of nine maidens. The nine daughters of St. Donald led a religious life in the Glen of Ogilby in Forfarshire; and after their father's death, went to Abemethy. Fincana is the best known. Boece makes them to be only seven. The other nine were holy virgins who came with St. Brigid from Ireland and settled at Aberncthy. Mazota was the most famous of these. St. Ninfa(l), Nympha. Santa Ninfa (2). The name given to some pools thirteen miles from Home, where St. Martha (5) was drowned in 270. St. Ninge, Nimonia. St. Ninna, May 6, M. at Milan, with many others, under Maximian. AA.SS. St Ninnita, June 4. One of many martyrs commemorated in several old martyrologies. The place of their death has its name so variously written as to leave it doubtful whether it was Novers, Noyon, Nogent, or Nineveh. AA.SS. Ninnie, Nonna, mother of St. David. St. Ninnoc, Ninnocha, Ninnock, Nennoc, Nenok, Nenook, June 4. 5th or 6 th century. V. and abbess. Founder of the monastery of Lan- nennoc in Plemeur, Brittany. Cahier