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233 ST. SUSANNA 283 St. Suanchild, Guntild ( i ). St. Successa, Maroh 27, M. in Africa. AA.SS, St. Sueva, Sbraphina (2). St. Suibhsech or Suabseg, Jan. 9, V. Patron of Tirhugh Barony, or Tir- Aedba, in Donegal. Mart, of Tallaght, O'Hanlon. Apparently not the same as Snaibsech (mother of St. Maolrnbha), who does not seem to be worshipped. St. Suline, Soline. St. Sumberga, in French, Sombee- OUE, Aug. 31. Honoured at Bobbio, where a translation of her relics was solemnly made in 1483. Migne. St. Summata, June 2, one of two hundred and twenty-seven Eoman martyrs commemorated together in the Mariyrology of St. Jerome, AA.SS. St. Summina, Sunniva. St. Summista or Luna Mista, April 6. Mentioned in an old martyr- ology, but unknown to Henschenius. AA.SS., Prseter. St. Summiva or Sumniva, Sunniva. St. Sunca. (See Atjape (2).) St Sunifa, Sunniva. St. Sunifra, Sunniva. St. Sunniva, July 8 (Summina, Summiva, Sumniva, Sunifa, Sunifra, suniva, sixevo, sinney, sobimine SoNNEVA, etc.), V. M. end of 10th cen- tury. Patron of Bergen. A princess, probably Irish, who to avoid marry- ing a heathen, fled from her native land with a considerable following. They were driven by a storm to the coast of Norway; the natives attacked them and they again put to sea and landed on the island of Sello where they converted some of the inhabitants. Earl Hakon persecuted them and Sunniva prayed that the rocks might fiEtU upon them: her prayer was answered. In 995 their remains were discovered and two churches were built on the island. In 1170 Sunniva was translated to Bergen. She has dedications in Orkney and Shetland. Beport of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, May, 1878. The BoUandists say that she was taken with seven companions by pirates to Norway, where the innocence of their lives con- verted some of the natives to Christianity. The Kcv. S. Baring Gould regards the legend as a variant of that of St. Ursula. AA.SS. Greven, Auctaria. Metcalfe, Passio B, Olavi. St. Supporina, Aug. 24. Her body is preserved in the church of St. Arte- mius at Clermont, in Auvergne, where she is honoured, Aug. 24, and with St. Vera, Jan. 24. AA.SS. St. Sura O), Soteris (2). St. Sura (2), Zuwarda. St. Surdidai June 1, M. with St. AUCEGA. St. Susanna (1) of Babylon, Jan. 26, Feb. 12, Dec. 19, Aug. 18, Aug. 28. Patron of the falsely accused. Daughter of Chelcias. Wife of Joacim, one of the chief men among the Jews carried cap- tive to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. Being condemned to death on a false accusation of infidelity to her husband, her innocence was proved by the pro- phet Daniel. The Greek Church counts her among the martyrs. The story of Susanna in the apocrypha was considered authentic by most of the early fathers of the Christian Church ; St. Jerome, how- ever, rejected it. The truth of the story was settled by Susanna herself in the following manner. A priest of Bordeaux was unjustly accused of theft. Seeing no means of clearing himself from the charge, he in- voked St. Susanna. She appeared to him in a dream, accompanied by the prophet Daniel ; she promised to assist the priest in his trouble, and told him that her body was lying unhonoured in a certain church at Toulouse. It was found in a rough marble tomb, with those of SS. Simon and Jude. The bones of the two apostles were hope- lessly mixed, but the body of St. Susanna was in a separate box of cy- press wood, her identity being established by a document preserved in a glass tube. The three bodies were said to have been brought from the East, those of the apostles from Persia, by Charlemagne. They were translated with much cere- mony into churches of greater impor- tance, and although the Latin Church generally gives Susanna no worship, she was thenceforth specially honoured at Toulouse on Jan. 26, the anniversary of the finding of her relics. Baillet