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277 ST. ULPHIA 277 " That which is wanting to thee shall be supplied by the grace of God, and thou shalt make such progress in holiness that thon shalt deliver thy city from Che greatest perils." Then he dis- appeared. She left her bread in the oven and ran to tell her parents. They took her at once to Pisa, where CTcry- body they met welcomed them, and when they arrived at the hospital, they found that the abbess and about forty of the nuns were waiting for her at the gate, as they had been warned by the angel of her coming. They conducted Ubaldesca to the chapel with great joy and solemnly invested her with the dress of their order. Her parents re- turned home, divided between joy at the sanctity of their child and the honour conferred on her, and grief that they must henceforth live without her. It was not until the next day that they remembered the bread iii the oven, and opened the door expecting to see nothing but cinders. To their surprise they found the bread perfectly well baked as if it had been exactly long enough in the oven and no more. They took some of it to the nuns in confirmation of the heavenly direction of the plans of Ubal- desca. The sanctity of her cloistered life was equal to the promise of its beginning. One day when she was at the well, some women on their way to church asked her for some water. She drew it up for them. They begged her to bless it, which she did, and it at once became wine. This is why she holds a bucket as her emblem. Once when she was begging for alms a stone fell on her head and gave her a serious wound. She would not suffer the nuns to dress it, and it remained a distressing sore to the end of her life. A holy priest sat by her grave for seven days and nights, confident that he should see some sign of her glory. On the seventh day he saw her carried to heaven between two chariots of fire. Her body was imme- diately taken up and wrought miracles. Soon afterwards the Prior of the Order fell into disgrace and commended him- self to her prayers, vowing that if she procured him the favour of being re- instated in his former honours, he would take care that her festival was kept regularly with becoming reverence : his wishes J were fulfilled and he presented her head to the nuns of her convent and had her body translated elsewhere, for greater glory. AA.SS, from Eazzi. HelyoL B. or Ven. Uda, Sept. 8, a Cister- cian recluse. AA.SS., Prseter, Buco- linus. Ven.Udalgartha, Aug. 18, a recluse. Bucelinus. St. Udegeva, June 28, V. + 1197, O.S.A. Teacher of B. Odilia (5). Honoured near Spanheim. Migne, Die. Hag. B. Udevolta, Aug. 12, V. Cister- cian nun near Cologne. Date and worship uncertain. AA.SS. St Udilina, Oct. 19, M. 382. A fabulous queen of Scotland. Wife of King Eugenius I., who was slain by the tyrant invader, Maximus. Udilina is commemorated by Camerarius. Hunter, O.S.D., says he saw a very old monu- ment to her at Cologne, but she is not found in the martyrologies, and is placed by the BoUandists among the Prsetermissi. St. Ugolina, Aug. 8, Sept. 22, V., O.S.F. + 1300. Eecluse near Vercelli. She lived in a grotto and wore armour for penance and for a disguise. Cahier, '* Cotte de mailles." St. Uliva, Olive. B. UUia, Julia (29). St. Ulphia, Ulphb, Ofpa (1), Olphk, OUFE, OULPHRB, VuLFIA, Or WuLP, JaU. 31, Oct. 23, V. 8th century. Recluse near Amiens. The first nun in that diocese. She disfigured her face and neglected her dress, and still fearing that her parents would insist on her marrying, she fled to a solitary place on the river Noie and rested near a fountain surrounded by brambles, on the spot where the convent of the Paraclete was afterwards built. The aged St. Domi- tius was living in a hermitage not far off ; he instructed her and she waited on him, and gradually became an instructor of others. In time she had so many disciples that, after the death of Domi- tius, she had to remove into Amiens