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214 214 ST. SALVIA and all his new converts, were beheaded, and St. Lucina (2^ buried them. AA.SS. St. Salvia (l). May 8, M. at Con- stantinople, with St. Acacins. {See Agatha (2).) AA.SS. St. Salvia (2), Silvia. St. Salvina (l), Sabina. St. Salvina (2), 4th and 5th century. Daughter of Gildo, a Moor, tributary king of Manritania and connt of Africa, a man of immense wealth and con- siderable ability, but guilty of great crimes: he died by his own hand. Salvina became the wife of Nebridius, a most amiable and estimable young man, nephew of St. Flacgilla, after whose death the Emperor adopted Nebridius and brought him up with his own sons, the future Emperors Arcadius and Hono- rius. High official dignities were heaped upon him, and about 396 he was Pro- Gonsul of Africa. He died young, leaving Salvina with one son and one daughter. St. Jerome's 79 th letter is addressed to Salvina. He had never seen her, but loved her husband. He advises her to remain a widow, and to devote herself to her children, and to ascetic and pious practices ; to have a maiden aunt to live with her and a respectable aged man to overlook her servants. He says of her son, quoting Virgil, '' that narrow frame contains a hero's heart," and he calls the little daughter of Nebridius and Salvina, of ivory and purple." In warning Salvina against all luxury and splendour, he says, '* Never let pheasant be seen upon your table, nor plump turtle doves nor black-cock from lona, or any of those birds so expensive that they fly away with the largest properties, and do not fancy that you eschew meat when you reject. . . the flesh ... of quadrupeds. It is not the number of feet. . . that makes the difiference." Ho says, '< Let the scriptures be ever in your hands, and give yourself . . . frequently to prayer." Salvina became a deaconess, and was among those devout women who, in after years, upheld St. Cbrysostom under his persecutions. Lebcau speaks of her as a Saint, but she does not appear to have a day of commemoration. Lebeau. Smith and Wace. St. Samaritana, Photina (i). St. Sambacia, April 2 i, M. in Africa. AA.SS. St. Sambaria, July 19 (translation). Probably same as the companion of St. Ursula, mentioned in Gynecsmm, Oct. 22. AA.SS,, Prseter. St. Samdyne or Samthana, Deo. 19, + 738. '* In yrelonde the feest of saynt Samdyne a virgyn, borne of noble blode, and by her frendes maryed, but for the desyre of virginite she was delyuered from her spouse by myracle, and so entred religion, wherein she came to hygh perfeccyon and was abbesse, a grete abnes woman and very py teous, and many persons she delyuered from shame and rebuke, many also from pryson by my- racle, and by her prayer she remoned a chirche, with many other notable actes." (Mart, of Salisbury,) She was abbess of ulonbrone or Gluainbronach, co. Long- ford. Butler, Appendix. St. Samina, June 2. One of two hundred and twenty-seven Roman mar- tyrs commemorated together. AASS. Mart, of St. Jerome, St. Sammata, June 2, M. at Borne. Stadler. SS. Samo or Samos and Guria, Nov. 20, MM. at Edessa. They went about comforting the Christians and converting the heathen. They were hung up, starved, and then beheaded. Usuard and Molanus. St. Samthana, Samdyne. St. Sanaen, July 4, M. at Maudau- rum in Africa, with St. Namphanio and others. B,M. Ferrarius. St. Sancha (l), March 13 (with her sister), June 17, + e, 1230. Daughter of Sancho I., king of Portugal (1186- 1212). Sister of Alfonso 11. (1212- 1223), and of St. Theresa (5), queen of Leon, and B. Mafalda, queen of Castile. Their mother's name was Dulce. King Sancho gave Sancha the town of Alen- quer, and confirmed it to her by will ; but her brother Alfonso the Fat tried to deprive her of this and the rest of her inheritance ; he invaded her estates and killed a number of her people. At last peace was restored, and Sancha seeing that her sister Theresa ruled over the
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