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215 ST. SANULA 215 Cistercian convent of Lorvan with great success, determined to build another of the same Order at Alenqner; but by divine revelation she went instead to Goimbra and built near that town, her monastery of Sta. Maria das Cellas, and into it she removed a number of recluses called Muratas who, for want of a nun- nery had been walled up each in a little cell, a very small window only being left open at which to pass in food. They received the veil from the Abbot of Alcobaza. Her brother urged her to marry her nephew, the king of Leon and Castile, in order to make peace between Spain and Portugal; but she declined and assumed the Cistercian habit. She did not yet, however, give up her property and liberty, but returned to Alenquer to attend to her estates and affairs. At this time, St. Francis, who was living in Italy, sent five of his friars to preach to the Moors. Passing through Portugal, they visited Alfonso. Sancha took so much interest in their mission that she built at Jerabrica, on her own estate, a chapel and cells for six or seven brothers of the Order. This was the first Franciscan religious house in Portugal. The five friars passed on to Africa, where they all suffered mar- tyrdom. Sancha was also a benefactor to the Order of St. Dominic. When she had settled her affairs, she shut her- self up, with her nuns, in her convent at Alenquer. She died about 1 230, and her sister Theresa carried off her body by stealth and buried it at Lorvan. They are commemorated together. AA.SS., June 17. Bucelinus, March 13. Henri- quez, Lilia, B. Sancha (2), sumamed Carillo, July 25, Aug. 13, abbess andcommenda- trix of the military Order of St. James. Daughter of Alfonso IX., king of Leon (1 1 88-1214). Sister of (St.) Ferdinand in. (1217-1262). Guten. Stadler. Florez says she lies honoured as a Saint in Santa Fd di Toledo. Sancia or Sanctia, Sancha. St. Sancta (l), July 28, M. at Chios. AA.SS., Prseter. B. Sancta (2). (See FuLcroE.^ St. Sanctia. (See Juliana (5).) B. Santa, Santuccia. Santillana, Santa Juliana. E»pana Sagrada. B. Santuccia or Santa, March 21, Sept. 8, + 1305. Bom at Gubbio, in Umbria, of the ancient and respectable family of Terrabotti. She was married and had a daughter Julia, who directly after her birth, while she was being washed, distinctly said, " Jesus. Mary." This child died young. B. Sperandio and his wife B. Gennaia, nobles of Gubbio, having betaken them- selves to a monastic life, Santuccia and her husband resolved to follow their example: he became a monk in the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, and she, with the approbation of the abbot, spent her sub- stance in building a convent on a hill near the town; it was placed under the protec- tion of the B. Y. Maby, and called Serve della Madonna. As soon as it was finished, Santuccia took the veil on St. Benedict's day, March 21, and established there the Benedictine rule of St. Sperandio. She was elected abbess, and her piety and good government were so eminent that the Templars presented to her the church of Santa Maria in Julia at Rome, with the adjacent buildings for a con- vent of her Order. Sperandio gave her an oratory at Bolgaviano, outside the walls of Perugia, where she founded a convent. She founded and was supe- rior general of twenty-four convents, all forming one congregation under the name of St. Sperandio. The nuns were popularly called le Saniuccie, In 1264, John, abbot of St. Peter's at Gubbio, pronounced an anathema against her, because she said that she and her con- vents were not subject to him. Pope Clement lY., however, annulled the ana- thema, and made her Order to depend immediately on the holy see. She is erroneously claimed as a member of the Third Order of Servites, which was not established until after her death. Her rule was Benedictine ; that of the Servites Augustine. Helyot. AAJ3S. Jacobilli, Santi dell* Umbriay Sept. 8. St. Sanula, Feb. 24, M. at Nicome- dia, in Bithynia, with sixteen other women and about a hundred and forty men. AA,SS.