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222 222 ST. SERE NA never had a wife Serena, Prisca was the name of the Empress in the time of St. Susanna. Serena is mentioned in the Acts of St. Susanna and those of St. Cyriacus, neither of which are authentic. B.M. AA.SS. Cfif/>f'ST.ALEXAia)RA(l).) St. Serena (4;, Jan. 30, translation June 25. M. under Diocletian. She is said by Saussaje to have been put to death for her kindness to the martyrs at Cordova, and her body translated to Metz. By another account, she was an inhabitant of Spoleto, who spent the thirty-three years of her widowhood in acts of piety and charity. When St. Sabinus, bishop of Assisi, had his hands cut ofif by the persecutors she tended him, dressed his wounds, and preserved his hands in a glass case. He rewarded her by placing tiie stumps on the eyes of her beloved blind nephew Priscian, and thus restoring his sight. Sabinus was put to death soon afterwards, and Serena buried him. AA.SS. Jacobilli, Santi delV Umbria, She is probably the same whom Stadler gives as M. at Spoleto, Dec. 7. St. Serena (5), or Syrena, Irene (S). St Sermata, Feb. 9, M. in Egypt. Mart, of St. Jerome. AAJ3S. St. Sermatia, Sarmatia. St. Serolde, Sicildis. St. Seronne, Nov. 1 5, V. in le Perche. Chastelain. St. Serote, Sicildis. St. Serotina, Dec. 31, M. at Home, with DoNATA and others, in the cemetery of St. Pbiscilla, on the Via Salaria. B.M. St. Servilia (l), Feb. 28, M. with many others. AA.SS. St. Servilia (2), Orrilia. St. Sesaute, Sicildih. Chastelain. St. Sethrid or Setiirytii, Sedrido. St. Seuve, Seva or Senve of Lobi- neau, Nov. 30. Daughter of St. Copagia and sister of St. Tugdual, British Piety, supplement. B. Seve or S^bva, July 26, nun at Langoal in Bretagnc. Gu^rin. Perhaps same as Seuve. St. Severa (i), Jan. 29, V. M. 1st or beginning of 4th century. One of a family of martyrs commemorated together. Her parents were SS. Maximinus and Secunda ; her brothers, SS. Mark and Calendine. Maximinus oommanded a thousand soldiers, many of whom he converted. He was condemned by the Emperor Mazimian, to work in the mines, and as he continued to make oonverts, he and they were put to death and buried by Pope ^Si) Maroellus, in 308. On the accession of a new emperor, — ^wh<Hn the story calls Claudius although there was no emperor so named at that time — Secunda and her children were arrested and brought to trial : Secunda then and there died. Her sons and daughter were scourged to death at Pyrgum (now called St. Severa), on the seashore thirty-fire miles from Borne. AA.SS. Peter Natalibus. St. Severa (2), June 3, Boman martyr. AA.SS. St- Severa (3), Oct 17, M. in Mauri- tania, probably 304. AA.SS. St. Severa (4), July 20, V. + c 6 GO. Sister of St. Modoald, bishop of Treves (May 12), who built a convent on the Moselle, in honour of St Sym- phorian, M. Severa presided over it. She was aunt or cousin of St. Gbbtbude (5). AA.SS. St. Severiana. {Sec Fuscina.) St. Severina, May 3. 2nd century. Erroneously called by Greven and Ferrarius, wife of the Emperor Aurelian ; but according to Papebroch, her hus- band was an officer of the same name, who, in 11 9, killed Pope TSt.) Alexander and two holy priests. Aurelian heard a voice warning him that these martyrs had gone to heaven, but that he should go to endless torment He was seized with fever and delirium and begged Suvcrina to pray to her God for hiuL She said she would go and bury the saints, lest the same fate should overtake her; she did so, and on her return, found her husband in a raging fever, of which he presently died. AA.SS. SS. Sewara and Sewenna. (See Ethelreda.^ St. SexDurga, July 6, queen of Kent. 7th century. Daughter of Anna, king of the East Angles (of the family of the Uffings) and perhaps of St. Heres- wiTHA. Wire <rf Ercombert, king of Kent (640-6G4), son of Eadbald, king