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212 212 ST. SALOME Provenoe. Mart Salome, Mart Mag- dalene and Mart of Clop as are called ''lestroiaMariesr B.M. AA.SS. Baillet. St. Salome (3), May 1, an ascetic, honoured by the Ethiopians. Stadler. B. Salome (4), June 29. 9th, 10th or 11th century. A recluse at Alteich, or Altaha, in Bavaria. Niece or sister- in-law, and adopted daughter of a king of England. Disgusted with the pomps and vanity of the Court, she persuaded her two maids to accompany her in dis- guise on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. On her way back, passing through Bavaria, she stayed for a short time at Begensburg. Here her beauty and dignified manner attracted the admiration of a worldly young man. Ashamed of herself, she went into a forest and prayed that her beauty might depart £rom her. Im- mediately ^e was struck with blindness. Not knowing where she walked, she soon fell into the Danube and was rescued from drowning, by some fishermen, who took her in their boat to Fassau. There she became a leper and lived on alms. She was kindly received by a. pious woman, named Hoika, with whom she lived for about three years. Then Heika mentioned her case to the Abbot of Upper Alteich, who built her a cell near his church. Meantime, the king of England, supposing her to have eloped, searched for her through all his own country until at last it became known that she had gone on a pilgrimage, from motives of piety. Her cousin Jutta (3), being a widow and bereaved of all her children, went from place to place seek- ing for Salome, and at last discovered and shared her retreat. By other ac- counts, Jutta settled at Alteich before Salome, who joined her there when she had recovered from her leprosy. Salome died first. Jutta was eventually buried beside her. AA.SS. Wattembach con- siders the story fabulous. St. Salome (6), Nov. 10, 17, 1224- 1268. Queen of HalitscLor Galicia, and duchess of Sandomir. A patron of the Order of St. Francis. Her Life by Eobielski contains twenty- four woodcuts illustrating difierent scenes in her life ; among the most remarkable are — No. 3, whore she appears as a little girl in a garden of lilies, attended by an old nurse; a Lamb, amidst clouds, is saying to her, " Where is thy treasure ? *' With one hand she offers Him a flaming heart, and in the other she holds a lily ; No. 4, in which her parents sit on their throne while the child is led away by the Hungarian ambassador; No. 13, where, after a Tartar raid, she is seen kneeling on the ground, wearing the halo of a saint ; the ruins of her convent are in the background, and all round her the heads and decapitated bodies of her nuns ; No. 21 shows her with her earthly crown overturned at her feet, the Infant Christ presenting her with another ; her church and convent are in the back- ground, and underneath is written. Si Salomea, Virgin, Queen of Halitsoh, of the Order of Saint Clara, bom 1202, died in her convent of St. Mary's Stone, 1268 ; Beatified 1673. She is also represented in the clouds, with the Blessed Virgin Mabt, helping the Poles to gain the battle of Chotim, against the Turks under Husseim Pasha. Salome was the daughter of Lestko the White, duke of Cracow and king of Poland (1194-1227); her mother was Grzimislaw, a Bussian princess. Salome was sister of Boleslas V., snmamed Pudicus, whose wife was St. Cuneguni) (4). For some centuries Galicia was generally an appanage of one or other of the Bussian princes. Li the continual wars and revolts, the combatants appealed to their neighbours for help, and tiius it happened that Andrew II., king of Hun- gary (father of St. Eusabetu (ll)), and Lestko V. of Poland were cidlea upon to side with some of the Bussian princes who were fighting for the possession of Galicia. Instead of reinstating either of the Bussians, they agreed to give the kingdom to Eoloman, the son of Andrew, and marry him to Salome, daughter of Lestko. She was then three years old, and was taken to Hungary and brought up at the Court of her fiftther-in-law. She was deeply relinous from her in- fancy ; she took the Third Order of Si Francis as soon as possible, and lived like a nun, both before and after her marriage. Eoloman was small, deformed, one-eyed, lame ; but clever, enterprising,