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133 ST. PAULA 133 Bargnndy. After his martyrdom she was taken by tbe heathen and burnt to death : Saussaye says with St. Flobida. She is praised by St. Gregory of Tonrs and popularly called Paquettx. AA,SS. St. Pasithea Crogi, Passidka. St. Pasqualina or Pascalina, V., Feb. 4, 12. +1313. O.S.P. Companion of B. Angela (2) of Foliono, in whose life she is mentioned by BoUandns as a sednlons imitator of her yirtues and acquainted with all her secrets. She died Feb. 4, and her sanctity was declared by miracles ; but although she is commemo- rated among the saints of Umbria, in the Mendogium of Lahier, and in other calendars, public honours were never adjudged to her by authority of the apostolic see. AA,SS,y Pr«ter, Prayer Book of the 0,8.F, St. Passara, Jan. 31, 4th century. Sometimes erroneously confounded with Praxsdks. Santa Passara is a corruption of Abba Cyrus, a Coptic Father. The name soon became Abacer, then Sant' Appacera and then Santa Passara. Ghastelain. St. Passidea, May 13, is described in an article on Distortions of Christianity, in All the Year Bound, June 25, 1870, as a Cistercian nun of Siena, who beat herself with thorns and washed the wounds with vinegar, salt and pepper; slept on cherry stones and peas ; wore a mailed coat of sixty pounds weight ; im- once hung herself for a time feet upper- most in a smoky chimney. She was Pasithea Crogi, a native of Siena, of the Order of St. Francis. There is no authority for her worship. St. Paternica, July 30, M. probably at Tuburbum, in Airica. AA.SS. St. Patience, Aug. lO, 3rd century. Honoured with her husband, St. Orentius, and their son, St. Laurence (of the grid- iron), at Osca or Huesca, in Aragon. AA.S8, The legend is to be found at great length in the Flos Sanctorum, St. Patricia (l), March 13, wife of Zeddonus, a priest Martyred with him and many other Christians at Lacwn Gerati. AA.SS. SS. Patricia (2) (Matricia or Mi- tbicia) and Modesta, March 13, MM. Wife and daughter of Macedonius, a priest, M. in Nicomedia. B.M. AA.SS. St. Patricia (3), March 13, honoured on the same day as St. Patricia (2). AA.SS. St. Patricia (4) or Patritia, Aug. 25, V. 7th century. Patron of Naples. Tradition makes her the daughter of the Emperor Constantino, but Seller places her in the seventh century. She was betrothed to a young nobleman, but as she had a vow of celibacy, she fled from Constantinople with her nurse, B. Aolae (2), and some of her maids and eunuchs. They went to Naples and thence to Eome, where she received the veil from Pope Liberius. She set sail from Ostia, intending to visit Jerusalem, but her ship was driven back to Naples, where she spent the rest of her life. As it was uncertain where she should be buried, two unbroken bulls were harnessed to a cart on which her body was placed, and they at once took it to the church of SS. Nicander and Marcian. AA.SS. A.B.M., 0J3.B, Aug. 26. St. Patrona or Matrona (4), M. with St. Alexandra (3). St. Patnima, Patbuina, or Patrunia, July 29, M. AA.SS. St Patyfrigia, March 13, M. at Lacum Gerati. AA.SS. St. Paula (1) or Paulina, June 3, Y. M. c. 273. She was taught from her childhood to visit the Christian prisoners and to minister to the con- fessors and martyrs. She saw the suffer- ings of a converted heathen priest named' Lncillian, who was imprisoned and tor- tured with four boys at Nicomedia. She washed their wounds with a sponge and witnessed the miracle of the four children coming unhurt out of the fiery furnace into which they were cast by the enemies of the Faith. She tended them on the journey to Byzantium, where the four boys were beheaded and Lncillian cru- cified. She also was at last taken, and after undergoing many tortures and being miraculously cured of her wounds by an augel, was beheaded at Byzantium. B.M. Men. Basil, Janning in AAJSS. gives the story of Lucillian and the four children, from a manuscript in the Vatican, but Paula is not mentioned.
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