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229 ST. SOPHIA 229 SoLONGiA. Soline was a native of Aqui- taine and proved her zeal as a Christian by making many converts. To avoid being given in marriage by her parents, she fled to Chartres, where a persecu- tion of the Christians was raging and where she was tortured and pnt to death. Cahier, from her lessons in the Abbey of St. Pierre-en- Valine, where her relics were kept in a gilded shrine. Martin. Stadler. St. Solomonia, Salome (1). St. Solon|:ia, Solanoe. St. Solonita, Salonica. St. Somberg^e, Sumberga. Cahier. St. Sommine, French for Sunniva. St. Sopatra or Sosipatba. (See EUSTOLIA.) St. Sophia (l)or Sapientia, Sept 17 in the Byzantine Chnrcb ; Sept. 30, July 1 , Aug. 1, + c. 120. Eepresented with three little girls, her daughters, Faith, Hope, and Charity. BM,, Sept, 30. Cahier, Saints En/ants, St Sophia (2), Sept. 3, V. M. Her Acts in the breviary at Minden in West- phalia are so like those of St. Serapia that Pinius thinks the relics translated there from Home in the time of Charle- magne are those of Serapia and that she has been erroneously called Sophia. AA.SS. St. Sophia (3), June 4, mother of SS. DiBAMONA and Bibtamona ; all mar- tyred in Egypt with St. Warsenopha and her mother. AA.SS. St Sophia (4), Oct. 31, 3rd century. Abbess of a convent near Bome. (See St. Anastasia (2).) B. Sophia (5) of Ancyra in Galatia, Nov. 5. 3rd century. When St. Clement (afterwards bishop) was deprived of his holy mother, the pious Sophia adopted him. She also loved and buried his friend St. Agathangelus. Gynecasum, Stadler calls her Saint. St. Sophia (6), matron. Her young daughters having suffered great tormenttf and been put to death for the Christian faith, she died praying at their tomb. Their relics were translated from Italy to Strasburg in Alsace. Cratepoleus, De Germanise Episcopis, etc., and his De Sanctis Germanise. Perhaps same as Sophia (1) or (3). St Sophia (7), April 30, V. M. at Firmo in Italy, under Decius, or Dio- cletian. B.M. AA.SS. Butler. St Sophia (8), July 20, M. at Damascus. Stadler. St. Sophia (9), July 27, queen, wor- shipped by the Ethiopians. AA.SS. Perhaps Sophia, queen of Cachetia, con- verted by St. Nino. St Sophia (10) Medica, May 22, M. probably not later than the time of Diocletian. She was skilled in medicine and put to death with a sword. Medica animarum, cosa cum oapite fait/* AA S8 St Sophia (11), May 15, V. M.'at Home. Represented with a bundle of rods, a trough, and an axe. AA.SS. Stadler. SS. Sophia (12) and Irene (2 Sept 18, MM. honoured m the Greek Church. They were beheaded,perhaps in the island of Cyprus. B.M. AA.SS. St Sophia (13), Sept. 23, V. M. Patron of Sortino in Sicily. Local tra- dition says that she was the only daughter of an emperor of Constantinople, a great persecutor of Christians ; the inhabitants of Sortino have been preserved from every pestilence and infectious disease through her aid, and that a well near her church daily restores health to numbers of sufferers : she was beaten with sinews of bulls, and cast into prison; when liberated, she fled to Sicily ; from there, was sent back to her father, and by his order, placed on the rack ; she was set free by a miracle, and finally beheaded ; seeing milk flow from her wounds, her father was converted. Cajetani says she could not have been daughter of an em- peror of Constantinople, but possibly of some member of the imperial family. Stilting considers the whole story fabulous. AA.SS. St Sophia (14) of Enos in Thrace, June 4. Supposed 10th or 11th century. Wife of a senator of Constantinople, and mother of six children. Being be- reaved of them all, she returned to her birthplace, where she constituted herself a mother of orphans and friend of widows. Her own food was bread and water, but
 * Sophia pridom corpora medica, facta est