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276 270 ST. TYRIA favour, she took tbo fingers oat of the box and put thorn into her breast, the flesh of which instantly closed over the relics; and when her porsners arriTed and ordered her to giye them up, she said she had lost them. They took the box and finding it empty, they searched her ; but they went home disappointed, for they found nothing. When she had brought the fingers safely home to Mauriana and they had wrought several miracles, three bishops came to visit them and to obtain particles of the relics if possible ; after tlircc days and nights of prayers, yigils and fasting, they were gratified by re- ceiving each, one drop of blood from the fingers. Tygria fearing that an inroad of pagans or any other accident might deprive her of her treasure, hid herself and it at a place called Laconia, where she built herself a little hut. One day when the numerous sparrows annoyed her more than usual vith their twitter- ing, she commanded them in the name of Christ to leave the place. They immediately flew away. Mauriana at that time was in the diocese of Turin, and the clergy of that city thought they ought to haye the relics of St. John, so they represented to the archbishop that it was unseemly to leaye them in such an insignificant place, and begged his leaye to fetch them. He said to Kufus, the archdeacon, " I dare not take these holy relics, but do thou what seems good to thee." Then the rash Bufas went to the church where the relics lay, and irreyerently attempting to seize the box, he became mad and was seized wilh fever, of which he died in three days. Everybody saw that it pleased God that one man should die as a warning, lest many should perish through similar presumption. King Gontram hearing of these miracles, ordered a magnificent church to be built in honour of God and St. Mary and St. John the Baptist, and endowed it with lands and reyenues. From this time the place was called St. Jean de Maurienne; St. Felmasins was its first bishop. Tygria knowing that her death approached, prayed that sbo might live to see the festival of tbo Baptist and the dedication of his church. Her prayer was granted. After attend- ing mass on St. John's day she gave what she had to widows and orphans and settled her own affairs. Twelve widows were to bo maintained for eyer on the proceeds of her estate of Valonia, which she made oyer to the church of St. John Baptist for that purpose. AA,SS. from an ancient manuscript in the church of St. Jean de Maurienne. St. Tyria, April 6, M. at Alexandria. AA.SS, St. Tzabala-Marja, Oct. 21. AA.SS.J Preeter,, from the Ethiopian calendar. U St. Uanfinnia or Bronpinnia, Oct. 12. Mother of St. Mobius or Moyean, the Lame, abbot of Glasnaidhen in Gal- way, who died 544. AA.SS., Appendix. The mother appears this day in the Mart of Tallaght. St. Ubaldesca, May 28, 1136-1206. Patron of Pisa, where she died, a nun in the conyent of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Bepresentod with the eight- pointed cross of her order on her shoul- der, a pot or scaldino in one hand, in the other a bucket, and sometimes a palm branch. Ubaldesca Calcinaria was bom of poor industrious peasants, near Pisa. One day when she was fifteen her parents and the servants were in the fields, and she was left alone in charge of the oyen ; when she had put in the bread to bake, an angel appeared and told her to go to Pisa and liye a life of penitence in the Hospital of St. John, among the nuns there. She answered, " Lord, how will they receiye me there without a dowry ? '* The angel answered, " Care not thou for these things. The holy nuns are more concerned about yirtue than money." " But," said Ubaldesca, " I haye neither yirtne nor money." The angel said,