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125 B. OSANNA 125 storms and for favourable weather in general. Orosia was betrothed to a Yisigothic prinoe and went to Aragon to be married. Just then the Moors invaded Spain. Near Jebra she was taken prisoner and led to Mnza, the general of the infidels, who said that if she would renounce her religion he would marry her. As she refused, he had her beaten, horribly mutilated, and at last beheaded. Years afterwards, when her sanctity had been shown by many miracles, her body was removed to Jacca. Her worship passed into Italy with the Spaniards. Lombardy in particular dedicated a great many churches in her honour. AA^S, Cahier. St. Orselina, Ursulina. SS. Orsmaria and Sigillenda, Aug. 30, were among the 11,000 VY. who sailed with St. Ursula. They buried many of their companions. They are honoured in the church of the Maccabees at Cologne. Martin. AA.SS., Praeter. St. Orsola, Ursula. B. Ortolana, or Hortulana, Jan. 5, O.S.F. + 1253. Mother of SS. Clara and Agnes of Assist. She became a member of the Third Order of St. Francis and afterwards a nun in Clara's convent, where she died. She is called '* Blessed Hortulana" in Brewer's Monumenia Franciscana, II. 543. St. Ortrude, June 22, V. at Guisnes in Picardy. AA.SS. Henschenius con- siders her the same as Eotrudb ; Saussaye says she is another saint. St Osanna (i; was perhaps the daughter of Aldfred and St. Cuthburga, for she is said to have been the sister of Osred, king of Northumbria. Some writers place her a generation later, and some doubt her existence. She is not much heard of in early history. Atten- tion having been drawn to her relics which were preserved in a church in the Netherlands, it was ascertained that she was a Northumbrian princess of the seventh or eighth century, and that her sanctity was first manifested a consider- able time after her death, by a miraculous flagellation she inflicted from her grave, and by which she converted a sinner. She was buried in the church of Hove- den, or Howden in Northxmiberland, but no special veneration was paid her until one day the concubine of the rector went into the church, and thoughtlessly sat down on the tomb. Presently she found that she could not rise from her seat. She writhed, she wept, she struggled, she called her friends and they pulled and pushed and hurt her, and tore her clothes, and still she could not be moved from the stone where she sat. At length she perceived that a punishment had fallen on her, and thac she was thus called to repentance. She resolved with many tears to amend her life, and separate from the priest with whom she lived, and when she had made a vow to do so, she was able to leave her seat, but not before her dress was torn, and her skin marked with many strokes of discipline. She has no day, but her story is told by the BoUandists, June 18, on the authority of Geraldus Cambrensis, among the PrsftiermiasL B. Osanna (2) of Mantua, June 18, V.,3rdO.S.D. -h 1505. Of the patrician family of Andreasi. From the age of five she had celestial visions ; at fourteen she took the habit of the Third Order of St. Dominic. At fifteen she lost her parents and became as a mother to her brothers and sisters, and later in life she took care of the wives and children of her brothers. It was the admiration of every one who knew her, that a virgin conseci*ated to a religious life and oc- cupied with spiritual matters, could so cleverly and wisely manage the worldly affairs of her family. Her visions and frequent ecstasies made her an object of suspicion to the friars, who doubted her sincerity and even her sanity. It seemed to them that she was trying to obtain a reputation for sanctity, or was in- sane. Fearing a scandal, they threatened to deprive her of the dress of the Order,bnt after a time her humility and simplicity made them change their opinion and apologize to her for their error. She greatly longed to be able to read sacred books ; but remembering that her father in his lifetime had often told her it was very dangerous and indecent for women to turn their attention to literature, she dutifully abstained from learning to read and write, until she was miraculously