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199 B. ROSSELINE DE VILLENEUVE 109 master, his wife, and Sister Catherine de Santa Maria, like herself a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. On her death-bed she sufifered excessive pain, which she described as a burning cross inside her, and attributed to her earnest desire to share the sufferings of Christ. She broke a blood-vessel and prayed that Christ would accept this bloodshed and remember that she had always wished to shed her blood for His sake. She died in 1617 and was taken to the church of St. Dominic, where an im- mense concourse of people flocked to see her, BO that although the church was very large there was a dense crowd during the three days that she lay exposed there ; and such was the anxiety of the people to have pieces of her wreath that a guard of soldiers had to be placed round the bier, and finally the doors were locked and she was privately buried in the tomb of her family. All the religious inhabitants of her country and indeed all Christian America, immediately after her death, demanded her canonization. Measures were taken to procure it, but the proceedings were stopped by a decree forbidding new de- votions, and she was not formally cano- nized until 1761. B.M. Aug. 26 and 30. AA.SS. Aug. 26. Leggendario delle Santissime Vergini. Butler. Baillet. B. Rose (7) Govone, bom, 1716, at Mondovi in Kedmont, -f- 1776. Founder of the Order of Rosines, still doing good work in Italy. An orphan with no means of livelihood, she managed to keep her- self from want by sheer hard work. One day she met a girl of her own age, desti- tute like herself, and giving way to despair. Full of sympathy, Eosa took her to her own poor dwelling and taught her to work for her living. Very soon they gathered around them other poor girls, whom they instructed and be- friended until this interesting society became so numerous as to attract public attention, and as everybody approved of the good work, they gave her a house for her seventy girls in the plain of Brao ; and after a short time, enlarged the build- ing 80 that Hose might establish a wool factory. She saw so well the need, even in the country, for saving girls from destitution and all its dangers, that she bethought her how much greater was the danger to poor girls in towns. So, leaving her first associate in charge of the establishment at Mondovi, she went to Turin in 1755, and started a humble branch there. King Charles Emmanuel III. heard of the good work and went to see it. He gave the workers the name of Bosinef and conferred on them a large building which had belonged to the Brothers of St. Jean-de-Dieu. Thus en- couraged. Rose set off on foot to other towns, invited indigent girls to come and learn to live by the work of their hands, and founded houses at Novara Fossano, Savigliano, and several other places. The Government further encouraged the Society by ordering from them the cloth for the soldiers' clothes; at the same time, the poorest bought from the Rosines the coarse woollen stuff for their humble garments. Rose died at Turin, Feb. 28, 1776. Her unostentatious work survives her. Nouvelle Biographie OSnerale. St. Rosebie, Rosebe, or Rosebia, Nov. 20, V. M. Servant of Maxentia (2). St. Barbens, an old man, was fellow servant of Rosebie, and put to death with her. Mart, of Salisbury. St. Roseiine, Rosseune. Rosemunda, Rosamond. St. Rosette, a corruption of Cend- rensette (Cinderella) in the south of France. Saturday BevieWy March 11th, 1893, p. 261, ** Blunders." St. Rosina, Rusina. St. Rosol^e or Rosoline, Rossoline. St. Rossana, Humility. B. Rosseline de Villeneuve, June 11, Oct. 16 (Rosceline, and erro- neously Roseline), c. 1263-1329 ; some- times incorrectly placed a century earlier. Patron of Carthusian monks and of tlie Order of Malta. Represented in the dress of her Order : 1) carrying two eyes in a reliquary; 2) putting to flight a troop of Moham- medans ; (3) carrying roses in her lap, being one of the many saints who were carrying bread to the poor, which turned into roses when some grudging master looked into the bundle ; it is sometimes i