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200 200 ST. ROSULA said that she was christened Jeanne and called Koseline from this incident, but this seems a confnsion with her annt B. Diana or Jeanne. The arms of Sabran sometimes appear in her pictures. The name Rosseline or Kossolino is common in Proyence and is derived from Rufa, and those who spell it Roselino and make verses alK>nt roses d propoa of it are mistaken. She was the daughter of Armand de Villoneuvo, baron des Ares ; her mother was Sibylla de Sabran, consin of St. Elzoar and of his wife St. Dklphinr. Her family for a time opposed her wish to be a nun, nntil Josselin, bishop of Orange, came to visit at the chateau des Ares, when she persuaded him to take her to the convent of St. Andr6 des Bamieres, between Orange and Yaison. Here she was entrusted with the care of the kitchen. She entered the Order of Chartreuses at thirteen but could only make her profession at sixteen and take the solemn vows at twenty-five. She was then consecrated deaconess, clothed with a stole like a deacon, and a crown was placed on her head. She made her profession at Bertauld, the chief Chartreuz nunnery in Provence, and there she lived until her family built a monastery at Celle Eoubaud (or Sobrives) near les Ares, where she was for a time under her aunt B. Jeanne, whom she succeeded as prioress in 1300. A brief of Pope John XXII. is addressed to Bosselyne, which proves that she was head of ^at house in 1323. She died Jan. 17, 1329. Her first translation occurred June 11, 1334. Her brother B. Elzear, bishop of Digne (and in 13G0, of Marseilles), laid her body in a shrine near the altar and placed her eyes separately in a reliquary, where they retained for centuries the bright- ness of life. A few years after her death, her brother Elie or Helion de Villeneuve, grand-master of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, being in great danger from a troop of Saracens, invoked her aid and straightway the enemy were smitten with panic and fled. She was never canonized but her wor- ship and her miracles were persistent. There are some discrepancies in the accounts of her life. AA.SS. Helyot. Cahier, Madame d'Opp^de, Vie de Sic. Delphine. Oet- tingor says that Eosseline's life was written by P. J. de Haitze, and published at Aix, 1720. Morin, La Petite France pontifical e, 1889. St. Rosula ( 1) or Bhoda, Nov. 2, M. at Cagliari, in the time of Trajan, with many others who went thither from Home. AA.SS, St. Rosula (2), Sep. 14, M. in Africa, under Valerian, with St. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, at a place on the seashorn six miles from Carthage. B.M, AASS. St. Rosula (3), May 15, M. in 3o4, either at Fausina, now Terra Nova in Sardinia, or at Filesia in Wallachia, or Phila in Macedonia, with St. Simplioius, and a man named Florentius. They were tortured in divers ways and finaUy run through with a spear. Henscbenins commemorates St. Simplicins but seem8 to think the martyrdom of his com- panions rests on insufficient authority. AA.SS. B. Roswitha, Eoswida, or Huots- viTH, -f- 027. She was abbess of Gander- sheim, and distinguished for literary acquirements : she wrote treatises on logic and rhetoric, which are lost. She for^ the devil to return a bond signed with blood, by which a youth had pledged away his soul. Five years after her death, was bom the more famous Hrots- vith, authoress of several plays and poems, including a panegyric on the Emperor Otho I. These two Roswithas are often confounded together. Only the elder is invoked as a saint. Ecken- stein. St. Rota, June 2, one of 227 Boman martyrs. AA,SS, St. Rotheres, May 12, V. M. pro- bably at Home, with more than five hundred others. AA,SS. St. Rothlauga, Hadelooa. St. Rotilda or Rhotilda, Sept. 1, same as Clotilda (1). Baillet. St. Rotrou, RoTRUDE. St. Rotrude, V. June 22 (Rodrue, Rotrou, Ortrude), Her history is lost. Her body, which the French Martyr- ology says was brought from England,