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238 288 ST. SYRE France, where she built a oonvcnt near Troyes in Champagne. Here she died and was buried at a village called from her Ste. Syre, whore her intercession is sought by persons afflicted with stone and hernia. Perhaps confused with Si Syra(l). AA,SS. Adam King. Came- rarius. Butler. St. Syre, Saethrith. Hiss Ecken- stein. St. S3rrena or Serena, Ibenb (8). St. S3rrenia, Cyrena. St. SjrisLy Syra. B. SyrianOi Dec. 31. (See Miche- UNA.) St. S]rtilla, SiRiLLA. St. Tabbs, Ebba. Butler. Tabitha (l) or Dorcas, Sepi 13, Oct 25 ; both words mean Gtazelle. She lived at Joppa and was full of good works and alms-deeds, and made clothing for the poor. Her death was so much regretted by the community that St. Peter came from Lydda and raised hor to life. No special worship in the Latin Church. Acts ir. 3(5, etc. AA,SS. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible. St. Tabitha (2), Nov. 21, V. at Ta- benna in Egypt, mentioned by Arthur du Monstier and by Stadlor. Perhaps the same as St. Isidora (2). AA.SS. St. Tacienne, Tatiana. Cahier. St. Taie, honoured by the Ursulines in Paris. Stadler. Corruption of Ste. AiE. (See Ay a). St. Taimthanna, Oct. 29, Martyr- ology of Donegal. Probably same as Dautinna. AA.SS. St. Takla or Theokla, converted her father and mother, and won the crown of them that confess and preach. Butler, Coptic Churches. St. Talia, Nov. ll, M. in Ethiopia. Stadler. Perhaps same as Tatia (2). St. Talida, Talisdis, Ama, Amata, or Amma Talida (Mother Talida), Jan. 5, March 13, 5th century. Abbess of AntinoTs in the Thebaid. There were twelve convents of holy women in the city of Antinoe ; Talida was so beloved by her sixty nuns that the door never had to be locked as in other monasteries, and thoy called hor the well-beloved mother. Palladius, Lausiaca. AA.SS. Whitford, English Mart. St. Talulla or Falulla, Jan. (>, V. Abbess of Eildare about 500. Sister of SS. Molaisse, Ohnata, and Muadhnata. Colgan calls her daughter of Nadfraich, who is perhaps St. Naithfraich, Dec. 11 + 520, coachman and reader to St. Brioid (2). Colgan. Lanigan. St. Tamthinna or Taimthanna. Supposed same as Dartinna. St. Tanche, Oct. lO. Century un- certain. M. of virginity. Invoked against hemorrhage and dysentery. Her parents were natives of Antioch but were compelled to quit that city for Bamerudes on the river Aube, in Cham- pagne. Tanche was early distinguished for many virtues. Her godfather gave a feast at Arcis-sur-aube, to her relations, and sent a servant to bring her on horse- back. Passing through a lonely district, he murdered her. She carried her head in her hands to the place of her burial some distance off. AA.SS. Cahier. St. Tanea or Tanen, Thennew. St. Tar, mentioned by Guerin. Per- haps Tarbula. St. Taracta, Attracta. St. Tarahatta, Attracta. St. Taraja, Theresa (6). St. Tarasia, Theresa (1). St. Tarbu, Tarbula. St. Tarbula, Tarbu, Therbuta or Pherbutha, April 22, 5, May 8, V. M. 344 or 349. Sister of St. Symeon, bishop of Seleucia and Ctesiphon. The queen of Sapor, king of Persia, was seized with a severe illness. Tarbula, her sister St. Therm a (1), and her servant who had devoted themselves to a religious life, were accused by the Jews of having caused the queen's malady, by enchant- ments in revenge for the death of Symeon. The queen, who was a Jewish proselyte and had great confidence in the attach- ment of her co-religionists, believed the calumny. The Magi seized the three Christians and condemned them to death;