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165 ST. PRISCILLA icn ofKampen. Giesebrocht, III. Karamsin. Bacelinns. Wion, Lignum Vitse, St. Praxedis (4), Parascbve (5), patron of Polotsk. St. Prtce, Apbincia. St. Precia or Pretia, Sep. 19, V. Abbess. Sister of St. Victorina, and dangbter of GroSricb, bisbop of Sens (741-750), who was cured of blindness by toncbing a pebble stained witb the blood of St. Stephen. Martin. Stadler. St. Predislava, Euphrosynb (7), patron of Polotsk. St Preminola, abbess of St. Cesarins. 7th or 8tb century. Gcdl, Chr. I. 620, B. St. Pretextata, May 19, M. at (letulia in Africa. AA.SS. St. Pretia, Precia. St. Preuve, Proba (3). St. Pribislawa, Przbiblawa. SS. Prima, seven martyrs at different times and places. AA.SS, St. PrimaBva,M.witbST.VicT0BiA(2). St. Primiatula, Privatula. St. Primina(l),Oct. 9, M. at Rome. AA,SS, St. Primina (2), March 7, perhaps same as Irmina (1), founder and abbess of Horres. {See Modesta (3).) AA,SS., Pvset&r St. Primitia, April 18, V. M. Her body was translated from Home to Bologna, 1622. AA.SS,, Prseter, St. Primitiva (l), May 11, M. Be- beaded with parents, brothers and sister. AA.SS. St. Primitiva (2, 3), July 23, Feb. 24, MM. B.M. AA.SS. St. Primosa, June 2, one of two hundred and twenty - seven Boman martyrs. AA.SS, B. Principia (1), Jan. 31, V. 5th century. Disciple of St. Maroella (7), who saved her from the soldiers of Alaric at the cost of her own life, in 410. AA.8S., Prseter, from Bazzi. Lebeau, v. 365. St. Principia (2) of Themolac, mother of St Cybar or Eparchius, a native of P^rigord. He was a hermit for forty years at AugoulSme and died 581. Stadler. Guerin. SS. Prinia (l, 2), June 1, MM. with St. Aucega. St. Prisca (1), Priscilla (l). St. Prisca (2), Jan. 18, V. M. 1st century. Called the first martyr at Bome. Bepresented holding a palm, a lion at her feet, an eagle hovering over. A young Boman girl of a noble and powerful family, baptized at thirteen, by St. Peter, in her father's house on the Aventine, where he was often entertained. She underwent cruel scourging and other tortures rather than renounce her faith ; the English edition of Villegas says she was "buffetted blacke and blew." She was thrown to the wild beasts in the amphitheatre, but they would not touch her. She was at last dragged to the Ostian way and there beheaded. One of the oldest churches in Bome stands on the spot where she was baptized. It was consecrated in 280 by Pope Eutychianus. Baillet says she is a duplicate of St. Martina and St. T ATI AN A. E,M, AA.SS, Leggendario, Villegas. Mrs. Jameson. Bloser, Bome et ses Monuments. Blunt's Annotated Prayer-hooh places her in the 3rd century. SS. Prisca (3, 4), June 3, Sept. 28, martyrs. AA.SS* St. Priscilla (1) or Prisca, July 8, Feb. 13. She is called Prisca by St. Paul (2 Tim. iv. 19). She was the wife of St. Aquila, who was a native of Pontus. They lived at Bome in the reign of Claudius and were tent- makers. When with all the other Jews they were banished from Bome by Claudius, they went to Corinth, at that time the chief city of Greece and a place of extensive trade. It is not known ex- actly when they were converted, but it is probable that they were among those Christians to whom the Jews had attri- buted the tumults of which they them- selves were the authors and which had led to the expulsion of all Jews from Bome. They had not been long settled at Corinth when St. Paul went there from Athens. He and Aquila became acquainted, and St. Paul lodged with him and his wife, and for his mainte- nance he worked at their common trade of making the Cilician tent or hair- cloth. He remained there eighteen months. He left Corinth to return to Jerusalem, in fulfilment of a vow, and