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236 236 ST. SUSANNA God, and having beaten her, he sent her to prison until ho should make up his mind what to do with her. Thera she prayed that Grod would take her soul, and from the prison she migrated to the Lord. The monks heard that she was dead and they all came to the prison, bearing palm branches and candles, and took her to the church and buried her. B.M. AA.SS. Menology of BcutiL Orseco-SIavonian Calendar, Deo. 15. St. Susanna (U), Aug. 27. 4th century. Sister of SS. Eliphius and Bishop Encherius. All martyred at Toul, under Julian the apostate. Their bodies were translated to Cologne. Their sister Manna went with them, but was not put to death. (See Manna (2).) Stadler. Lanigan. St. Susanna (i/)), Nov. 25, V. + e. 400. She had a little dwelling in one of the porticoes of the church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople. There St. Matkona took shelter and counsel with her, when the door-keepers obliged her to leave the church. When St. Eugenia told Matrona she must pro- vide a place of safety for her daughter Theodota before she could withdraw from the world to become a nun or recluse, Matrona said she would leave Theodota to God and Susanna. Gynecseum, Stadler also calls her Saint and refers to Eugenia for her story. St. Susanna (lO), called in Iberia, Chuchanic, Oct. 17, M. 6 th century. Queen of Iberia, now Georgia. Daughtc^r of a king of Armenia or Iberia. She married Yaiken or Curabach, lord of Han, a man of dissolute morals. He abjured Christianity, that he might get into favour with the king of Persia, whose daughter he married. Susanna attempted to leave him and take her children with her, but in vain. He treated her with great cruelty and in- dignity, and kept her six years in fetters, in prison, where she died. She was buried with all honour in the church of Metekh at Tiflis. Orseco- Slavonian Cah'ndar, St. Susanna (17), M. c 750, with countless other martyrs. She was wife of the governor of Ran, in Georgia. Nealc, Folloicera of tJie Lard, B. Susanna (18), July 12, M. in the 17 th century at Nagasaki. Peter Arachi Cobioio was her husband. {See Monica (2).) Susanna was exposed to the jeers of the populace, hung from a tree by her hair, and afterwards placed on a cross, where she remained for eight hours. Her three-year-old daughter was with her. A woman servant, to save the child, claimed it as her own, but Susanna boldly said, " No, she is mine." Where- upon the child was hung across the mother's feet. Susanna, after farther tortures, was beheaded. AuthoritieB same as for Lucy Fbeitas. St. Susia, Susanna (11). St. Svogslarea, Woyslawa. St. Syagria, Siohabia. B. Sybilla, Sibylla. St. Sybillina, Sibillina. St. Symphorosa (1), July 18, + c 130. Bepresented with seven children, carrying palms. Wife of St. Gretulius, an offioer in the Boman army, under Trajan and Adrian ; his brother Amantius was converted with him. Getulius left the army and settled in the Sabine hills, but Amantius re- mained in the army. The emperor sent Cerealis to take Gretulius and have him tried as a Christian, but Getulius and Amantius converted Cerealis. Another messenger was sent to apprehend all throe and insist on their renouncing Christianity. They were kept in prison at Tivoli nearly a month, with another Christian nam^ Primitivus; and all arts and threats being vain to shake their determination, they were beheaded, ac- cording to Butler ; but according to the legend, they were burned, and Getulius remaining longer alive than the others, was despatched by blows on the head. These four martyrs are commemorated, June 10. Symphorosa buried them in an Arenarium on her estate. Soon after- wards, while Adrian was building his villa at Tivoli, she and her seven sons, Crescens, Julian, Nemesius, Primitivus, Justin, Stacteus, and Eugenius fell into the hands of the enemies of the Church. Symphorosa was beaten and hung up by her hair, all the time encouraging her sons to be steadfast in the faith and not to fear what men could do unto them. i)