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182 182 ST. RECTRUDE St. Rectrude, Eictbudk. St. Redeg^ndis or Redigxtnd, Res- ound (3). St. Kedempta, July 23, a disoiple of St. HmuNDO and teacher of St. Romtjla. St. Reducta or Neducia, June 2. One of 227 Roman martyrs oommemo- rated together this day in the Martyr- ology of St. Jerome. AA.S8. St. Refroie, Rainfbede. St. Regenfledis, Regenflegis, or Regknfbedis, Wiloepoutis. St. Regenfrith, Wilgefobtis. St. Regensvide or Regenswitha, Reginsidis. St. Regia, Regina (l). St. Regina (l), Sept. 7 (Reine, Regia), V, M. 251 or 286, or 5th century, under the Vandals, etc. Patron of Alise and against itch and other skin diseases. Represented: (1) with signs of torture and martyrdom and with a well near her, being one of many saints who either made a well or endowed one with miraculous properties; (2) with a sheep beside her ; (3) with a banner, but this is probably nrom con- fusing her with St. Margaret. Legend says she was daughter of Clement, a heathen nobleman of Alise, in Burgundy, once the large town of Alexia besieged by GsBsar. Regina was brought up at the cottage of her Chris- tian nurse, and kept her sheep. When she was grown up, a young nobleman, named Olybrius, was riding by on a visit to Clement, and seeing a beautiful shepherdess, inquired who she was. When he found that she was the daughter of his friend, he proposed to marry her and was accepted by her father. Regina, howeyer, had made a vow o{ celibacy, and declined to marry. Clement or- dered her immediately to renounce her Yow and her religion, and on her re- newed refusal, carried her off to the castle of Grignon, and shut her up in a tower. The stone to which she was chained, and the chain which bound her to it by the waist are still shown in the abbey of Flavigny, whither her relics were translated in 864. A small town near Alise is called Ste. Reine in memory of her. TheophiluB, who fed her in prison, is said to be the writer of her Life. Butler says she was beheaded for the faith either under Decius, 251, or under Maxi- mian Hercules in 286. Her legend is a duplicate of that of St. Margaret (1), also fabulous. B.M. AA.8S. BaiUet Butler. St. Regina (2), April 2, M. in Africa, with St. Marcelienus. St. Regina (3), March 1, M. at Nico- media, with St. Antiga. AA.SS. SS. Regina (4, 5). Two saints of this name, perhaps queens whose names are lost, were among the companions of St. Ursula. St. Regina (6) or Reine, July 1, 8th century; translations April 17 and March 17. Represented wearing a crown and holding an abbess' staff but without the nun's yeil. Of royal de- scent, she married Adalbert or Aubert, count of Ostrovandia or Estrevant, who held high o£Gice under Pepin d'Herstal, the second of the three great Pepins. They had ten daughters and built for them the monastery of Denain on the Scheldt, not far from Valenciennes, which they dedicated in the names of St Mary and St. Martin. Their eldest daughter, St. Rainfrede, was the first abbess. AA.SS, Bucelinus. Stadler. St. Reginfrede, Rainfbbdb. St. ReginsidiSy Regensvide, Rsgehs- wiTHA, Reginswindis, Regnisidis, July 15, V. M. 9th century, at Lauffen on the Neckar, in the diocese of Wurtz- burg. Only child of Ernest, lanJgraye of Louchtenburg in Swabia, and Fried- burg, his wife. When she was seren years old, her nurse's brother, who had the charge of a drove of horses belong- ing to the landgrave, neglected them, causing great loss to his master. The landgrave had him flogged; his sister, the nurse, was so angry that no ven- geance seemed too great for her; she killed Reginsidis and threw her from the castle of Lauffen into the river Neckar which ran deep and swift below. The little girl was drowned but the waters would neither cover the innocent child nor carry her away. Hubert, bishop of Wurtzburg, saw ih a vision the little princess crowned with lilies amongst the heavenly choir following