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210 210 ST. SACUSA kept before tbe altar of St. GsNEviisvE ia the monastery of Boyao at Olermont in Auvergne. She is mentioned by the ecclesiastical historians of that place, but Henschenios considers her existence doubtful and thinks that the words misinterpreted to mean the bones of a saint named Sacra. Prseter. St. Sacusa, Segusa, or Secuba, May 10, M. at Tarsus in Cilicia. AA,SS. St. Sadalaberge, Salabekga. Cahier. St. Saethrith, generally means Se- DBiDo. Miss Eckenstein gives the name as a variant of St. Stbe. St. Salaberga (l), Feb. 6, M. in the Vandal persecution. St Salaberga (2), Sadalabebga or Salabebna, Sept. 22, + c. 665. Founder and abbess of St. Joan de Laon. Patron of Laon. She was a member of one of the principal families of the Sicambri and was bom at Oondrecourt on the Mouse, on the borders of Champagne and Lorraine. Her father and mother were Oondwin and Saretrude. One day Gondwin received at his house St. Eustasius, second abbot of Luxeuil, who had been preaching to the heathen in Bavaria ; G<)ndwin presented to him his two sons that ho might bless them. Eustasius asked if he had no more children, and he said he had a daughter, Salaberga, but that she had been blind for some little time. They sent for the child, and Eustasius asked her if she would like to serve God ; she said that was her greatest desire. After fasting for some days and making many prayers for her, he anointed her eyes with holy oil, and so restored her sight. He after- wards cured her of dysentery. Salaberga soon recovered her good looks as well as her health, and was married young, to Eichran, a young nobleman who died two months afterwards. She then wished to be a nun under St. Magtavlede ; but her parents, supported by the authority of King Dagobert I., obliged her to marry B. Blandin, sumamed Bason. They were " of one heart and one mind " with regard to religion and charity. Having been childless for some years, Salaberga vowed that if God would give her children, she would dedicate them to His service. She had three daughters and two sons in eight years. She con- sidered she would best Mfil her vow by giving them an excellent education. She was aided in all her doings by the counsels of St. Walbert, who had suc- ceeded Eustasius as abbot of Luxeuil. Her husband being as pious as herself, encouraged her to build a monastery in the Yosges, and thither, with his consent, she withdrew from the world, with about a hundred holy virgins; but reflecting that this place was too far from the pro- tection of large towns and too near the boundary between Austrasia and Bur- gundy, she removed the community, by the advice of St. Walbert, to Laon. She built a large monastery and six churches for her spiritual daughters, and as all the large monasteries of those days were double, she built a smaller monastery and one church for men; she presided over both for about ten years. At the approach of death, when she was about fifty, she made over her authority to her daughter St. Austbude. Salaberga was buried in her own church, where also are preserved the bodies, in whole or in part, of her husband, her daughter, her eldest son St. Eustasius who died in childhood, her second son and youngest child Si Baldwin, and her brother St. Bodo or Leudwin. The ' sanctification of all these persons is considered to be in a great measure due to the holiness of Salaberga. Her Life was written during the lives of her children, and bears every appear- ance of truth. BM AA,8S. Baillet Montalembcrt. Li tho Konigliche Mu- seum at Berlin, is a beautiful psalter in uncial characters, written by tho hand of Salaberga for the use of her nuns ; it is still in perfect preservation. It forms part of the precious collection of Manu- scripts, which belonged to the Duke of Hamilton and was sold en masse to the German government in 1 882. Edinburgh Courant, Nov. 6, 1882. St. Salabema, Salabebga. B. Salaphtha, Feb. 26, called in Greek Ibene Y. 5th century. About the year 421, Salaphtha who was four- teen years old, was living at Gaza,
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