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112 112 ST. NOUMEZE A series of wood-cuts in the AcUi Sanc- torum represent the chief events of Not- burg*s life, and her funeral. The last of them has angels lifting the coffin from the cart, to put it in the grave. Some time after Notburg's death, the castle of Rottenburg was burift down, all except the chamber formerly occupied by the saint, which Count Henry had transformed into a chapel. AA.SS. Ott. Cahier. Wetzer and Welto. Miss Eckenstein remarks that the stories of Notbuko of Rottenburg, Radian A of Wellenburg, and Guntild of Biberach are precisely the same, but that they are considered to be distinct persons. St. Noumtee or Noumoize, Neo- HADIA. SS. Novella (l-:^), June l. Three martyrs of this name are commemorated with St. Auceoa. AA.SS. St. Novella (4;, April 12, M. at Capua. AA.SS, St. Novita, NoNNA, mother of St. David. St. Noyala or Noiala, July 6, V. M., called in Brittany Noaluen (white No- yala), sometimes Noaleun. She is the same as the Cornish St. Newltn. Patron of Pontivy, in the diocese of Veunes in Brittany. The legend told at Pontivy is that St. Noyala came from England to France with her nurse, and that they crossed the sea on a leaf. The chapel of Le Beze, not far from Beignan, marks the spot where she was beheaded by order of the tyrant Nizon, unknown in secular history. After this event, Noyala jour- neyed to Pontivy, carrying her head in her hands. During Lent many wor- shippers from the surrounding country repair to her shrine. AA.SS. SS. Nubilita and Victuria, Oct. 1 7, MM. at Alexandria. AA.SS. St. Nun, Nonxa, mother of St. David. SS. Nune and Mane, Oct. 28, worshipped by the Armenians. Nune is the same as St. Nino ; Mane, her com- panion, is only known to the Armenians, but there is to be an account of them in the AA.SS., Dec. 15. St. Nunechia or Nunwjue. (See Chabikssa.) St. Nunia, Nino. SS. Nunilo and Alodia, Oct 22, VV. MM. 851. Patrons of Huosca and Leira. They were daughters of a Mo- hammedan father and Christian mother in Spain, in the time of Abder Rahman. After their father's death, their mother married another Mohammedan ; in con- sequence of this, the young women went to live with a Christian aunt at Vervete, supposed to be Castro Viejo, near Majara in Castile. Their piety and persistent celibacy attracted the attention of the Moors, who endeavoured to pervert them by many persuasions and threats, but all in vain. So at last they won the mar- tyr's crown by being beheaded for the faith. B.M. AA.SS. Eulogius. Butler. Baillet. St. Nunnina or Nonnina, Jnly 2( M. in Africa. AA.SS. St. Nuppurg, No^BURG (4). St. Nurtila. Patron of a chnrch in the diocese of Vienne in Danphine. Guerin. Stadler. St. Nusca, otherwise Nuscia, NusTA, or Nustua, May 20, V. M. Commemorated with SS. Basila and AuREA. Supposed to have been martyred either at Rome or Ostia. AA.SS. St. Nutrix, June 16, 6th century. Nurse of St. Felix. Her name is not known. St. Maurus of Csosarea, in Syria, joined a company of Christians who were going to Rome. His wife Euphrosyne would not accompany him, but allowed him to take their little boy Felix with his faithful nurse. On the voyage, Maurus saved the whole party from shipwreck. Arrived in Italy, he settled at Spoleto, where he found the people terrorized by a dragon. He killed it. Nutrix and Felix died in one day. Maurus survived them twenty years, and became a friend and disciple of St Benedict and first abbot of Spoleto. AA.SS. St. Nympha or Ninpa, Nov. 10, her translation Aug. 1 i>. oth century. One of the four great patronesses of Palermo. The others were Agatha, Christina and Olive (5 ). Nympha lived at Palermo, but when Sicily was invaded by the Goths, she fled to Italy and settled at Savona