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138 138 ST. PAULINA with tho heayiest chainB. At mid- night they entered his room, shining like angels; whereupon Artemius, Candida, Paulina, and three hnndred others wor- shipped Christ and were baptized. When the confessors were led to the place of execution, they met so many Christians that the guards ran away ; the Christians ran after them and detained them while Marcel linus said mass in the prison. Then Marcellinus said : '^ You were in our power and we did not even rescue Artemius and his wife and daughter." Then Artemius, Candida, and Paulina were thrown into a pit and crushed with stones. B,M. AA,S8, Mrs. Jameson. Martyrum Acta, St. Paulina (8), one of the nine sisters of St. Eainfuede. St. Paulina (9), June 6, and Jan. G, Y. M. Patron of Olmutz. Moravian prints represent her pouring the contents of a pail over the town of Olmutz. Her aid is sought against fire, contagious diseases and thieves. Her date and parentage are unknown. Her worship in Moravia is traced to the beginning of the 17th century. She was chosen special patroness of Olmutz, in 1623, when her relics were taken there from Home, and her festival is kept at Olmutz, Jan. 6. Cahier. ■ B. Paulina (10), March 14, -f 1107. Founder of the Benedictine monastery of Cella Paulina, in the diocese of Mayence, where she is buried. Her son Wernher was one of the twelve monks who origi- nally inhabited the monastery, whither they came from Hirsauge; the abbey was either in Saxony or on the con- fines of Thuringia. Trithemius, in his chronicle of Hirsauge, calls her a vener- able and holy recluse on the borders of Thuringia, he gives her date as 607. Guerin gives her day as March 14. AA,SS. Migne, Die. des Ahhayes. St. Pazanne, Pbbseveranda or Pe- ciNNA. Guerin. St. Peae, Pega. St. Pechinna, Pecinna. St. Pecinna, June 24, 2:), (Pazanne, Pechinna, Pernia, Perse veranda, Pex- iNB, Pezaine, Pezenne, Picinna, or Po- zanne). Agnomine et meritia Persf^vc- randa. Supposed 8th century. Patron of St. Qnentin, and of Ste. Pezaine in Poitou. She was bom in Spain of a noble family. She had two sisters, SS. Columba (10) and M agrin A. They gathered other religious young women around them and led an ascetic and devotional life, until the fame of their sanctity attracted the attention of King Oliver, who reigned in one of the western provinces of Spain and was a fierce persecutor of the Christians. Columba foretold to her sisters and their friends that they were about to become the victims of persecu- tion. She had hardly finished speaking when letters were brought, ordering them to appear before Oliver. Columba, after exhoriking her sisters to be firm in the faith, went with, the messengers. The king asked her who she was and of what religion, and when she had answered, he told her she might live unmolested in his dominions if she would renounce her religion. One of the bystanders told him this woman was not to be com- pared for beauty to her two sisters^ and the impious king at once ordered some of his guards to go and seize them, swearing by his gods that he would make haste to see them himself and take them for his slaves. Meantime, Pecinna and Magrina, warned by a dream, commended them- selves to the protection of Grod and fled. They travelled for seven days, and then Pecinna died, exhausted with privation and fatigue. Some Christians happened to come to the spot, and saw a dove, sur- rounded by a celestial light, hovering over the body, and as they knew^ the noble birth and piety of the maiden, they buried her with due honour at a place in Poitou, now called after her Ste. Pezaine. Meantime, the messengers returned to the king and told him they could not find the holy maidens any- where. He was furious and set off in search of them, vowing evil against them. One of his followers found the dead body of St. Pecinna and attempted to bring it to Oliver; but was struck blind for his presumption, by which punish- ment he was converted to Christianity. St. Pecinna was afterwards translated to Niort, and eventually to St. Qnentin,