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137 ST. PAULINA 137 St. Paula (15), Feb. 20, snrnamed Bakbata, Y. M. Time uncertain. A beautiful peasant girl of the place now called Cardenosa, in the neighbourhood of Avila in Spain. She used to go often to pray at the tomb of St. Secundus, bishop of Avila, M. To escape from a wicked man, she prayed that her face might be disfigured. In answer to her prayer, she was immediately endowed with a thick beard and her face dis- torted. Her lover fled in horror and Paula gave thanks to God and is counted among the martyrs. The manner of her death is not known. AA,S8, from Tamayo de Salazar. St. Paula (16), Nov. 4, V. at Rimini. There was a church dedicated in her name at the village of Eoncofrede, where her distaff had grown into a tree which healed diseases. Ferrarius. B. Paula (17) of Foligno, Jan. 26 or 31, + 1470. 3rd O.S.F. She was a disciple of B. Angelina Corbara, and was sent by her with B. Antonia (6) of Florence, to Aquila, in 1433, to found two monasteries of the Order, namely, that of St. Elisabeth, and that of the Body of Christ. Paula became superior of the latter and died there. Jacobilli, Santi deir Umhria and Santi di Foligno. B. Paula (18) Gambara Costa, countess of Bena, March 29 and Jan. 25, + 1^05. 3rd O.S.F. She came of a noble family at Brescia, and married Count Louis Costa. She was distinguished by miracles, both before and idter her death at Bena in Pied- mont A.B,M. Bomano Seraphic Mart., March 29. St dler. Guerin, Jan. 25, says that a plenary indulgence is granted to her worship. B. Paula (19) Spezzani, August 18. Nun, O.S.D., under B. Antonia (7), in the convent of StCatherine at Ferrara, in 1509. Eazzi. Jacobilli. B. Paula (20) Montaldi or of Mon- talto, Oct. 29, b. 1443 -f 1514. O.S.F. The Montaldi were for years one of the distinguished families of Genoa, but it is not certain that she was one of them. She was born either at Genoa or at Montalto near Mantua. At the age of fifteen she became a nun in the convent of St. Lucy at Mantua, where she was abbess three times, and died worn out with old age and asceticism. A.B.M, AA,8S. She appears in Data's Chronicle of St, Francis and in Hueber's list of princesses of the Order. Her worship began within a few years of her death and was si^nctioned by Pius IX. in 1866. St. Paulica or PAULiciA,May 31, M. at Gerona in Spain. AA.SS. St. Paulina (l), Doc. 2, Oct. 27, M. 257. Wife of Adrias. They lived at Rome. They had a daughter Mary (9) and a son Neon. St. Hippolytus was the uncle of the children and brought them up as Christians, although their parents were still heathen and would not have them baptized. He tried to keep them with him as much as possible, and did what he could to induce Adrias and Paulina to come to his house and meet St. Stephen, bishop of Eome, that they might profit by his instruction. Adrias did not wish to risk his life and property by adopting the proscribed religion, but at last he and Paulina were converted and all six were mar- tyred the following year, the boy Neon being ten years old, and Mary thirteen. They were buried in the sand-pit, at the first milestone from the city. B.M. Tillemont. Lightfoot. {See Martana.) St. Paulina (2), June 3, Paula (1). St. Paulina (3), Dec. 31, M. at Rome, with many others. R.M, SS. Paulina (4, 6, 7), MM. in divers nlaces St. Paulina (6), June 6, V. M. at Rome. Daughter of the jailor St. Arte- mius and St. Candida (3), his wife. Paulina fell sick during the persecution under Diocletian. St. Peter, the exor- cist, and St. Marcellinus offered to cure her, if Artemius would become a Chris- tian. The jailor derided them, saying : " If I put you in the deepest dungeon and load you with the heaviest chains, will your God deliver you?" They answered : '* It matters little to our God whether such a one as you believe in Him or not ; yet yon shall see that He can deliver us." Scoffing, he put them in the deepest dungeon and loaded them