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5 ST. MAGIRDEN up aud saw a crowd of beantifal jaicy cherries on the trees, which a short time ago had nothing but blackened twigs to show. Magdalene miracnlonsly con- verted a relation of her own from a criminal life to one of penitential de- votion. Many other miracles are told of her. She bore a long and painful ill- ness with great fortitude. Immediately after her death she was honoured as a saint, and when the nuns moved to another house they carried her body with them as a sacred treasure. AA,SS. ToroUi, Saints of the Order of St. Angus- tine. Stadler. B. Magdalene (3), Oct. 14, 13, V., 3rd O.S.F., -h 1503 or 1505. Maddalena Fanateri was born at Tridino, a town of Montisferrato ; her mother was of the family of Fondazucchi. She was beau- tiful, clever, well brought up. She early set before herself the example of St. Catherine of Siena. Her asceticism was great. She was often translated in spirit to Jerusalem and other holy places. She had the gift of prophecy and was flELVoured with many visions of Christ and the saints. She twice saved the life of her brother Benino by super- natural means. In 1827 her immemorial worship was confirmed by the Congrega- tion of Bites and her name was iuserted in the Dominican Martyrology. A,RM, AA.S8.y Oct. 14, supplement. Marchesi, Diario Sacro Dominicano. Diario di Roma, Sept. 28, 1827. Eazzi, Pred/caton. B. Magdalene (4) Mundo, Oct. 5, V. M. 1613, at Arima in Japan. At the time of the beatification of Mary Mag- dalene DEI Pazzi, Pope Urban VIII. sent to the Carmelites of Florence, a cross containiug relics of Magdalene Mundo, whom he called "the Blessed Mary Magdalen, Virgin of Japan." She was the daughter of a Christian gentle- man, named Adrian Facafati Mundo and Jane bis wife. Magdalen was twenty years old and had made a vow of vir- ginity, when she was condemned to death, with her parents, a brother of eleven, and four other Christians. All the women met their death in dresses of ceremony, treating it not as a misfor- tune, but as a festal occasion. Twenty thonsand Christians, unarmed, encamped aronnd the place of execution for three days ; they were fed and assisted by other Christians. Villefranche, MM, du Japan, B. Magdalene (5^, Aug. 16,M. 1520. Wife of B. Simon Quiota or Eyota. He was bom of a noble family in the king- dom of Bungo, Japan. He was a soldier, but when Francis, his king, was expelled, Simon and Magdalene retired to Cocura, where the Jesuit Fathers made him their catechist and gave him charge of the mission. He opened a school for children and soon it was known that he cast out devils. The prince ordered him to abandon the faith and cease from the functions of catechist. As he did not obey, he was condemned to be crucified with his head down, like St. Peter. Magdalene who belonged to the confra- ternity of the Eosary, was cited before the tribunals, after her husband. She said, *' Why should I go to the tribunal ? I shall say the same before the judges as at home and never will fear of death make me abandon the faith of Christ." She wrote this protest and sent it by her servants to the prince, who forthwith condemned her to be crucified with her husband. Authorities, as for Lucy de Freitas. B. Magdalene f6). Sept 12, de- scended from the royal house of Bungo, was burnt alive in 1627 with B. Frances (10), at Nangasaki. B. Magdalene (7) of Isonnocouni, Sept. 10, M. 1622. Wife of Antony Sanga, at one time a catechist of the Jesuit Fathers in Japan ; he wished to be a Jesuit ; his health did not permit him to finish his novitiate, so he married Magdalene who had been brought up a Christian, and they dedicated themselves to the service of the missionaries of the Order of St. Dominic. They were both beheaded with Spiuola. (See Lucy db Freitas.) St. Magdeflede or Magdefeede, Mactaflede. St. Magdelberta, Madelbert. St. Magenhild, M^nehould. Cahier. St. Maggina, or Mioina, M. April 12. AA.SS. St. Magina, Dec. 3, M. in Africa. R.M, Guerin. St. Magirden, Maoirdle, Magriden,