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284 284 ST. VALERIA blessed Valeria, where three hundred poor persons were to be entertained every day, and another whore food was to be distribated daily to six hundred. He also built a church over the tomb of Valeria. B.M, Ordericus Vitalis. St. Valeria (2), April 28, M. c 62. Wife of St. Vitalis, patron of Havenna. They are supposed to be the father and mother of SS. Gervasius and Protasius and to have lived in the time of Nero. It is said that Vitalis was a native of Milan and an officer of the imperial army and that he concealed his fedth, helping the Christians secretly until he found it necessary to declare himself, in order to encourage a timid martyr named Ursioi- nus. Vitalis was tortured and buried alive at a place called " The Palm-trees," at Eavenna. A magnificent church was built there in his name, by the Emperor Justinian in 547. After her husband's death, Valeria left Bavenna to return to Milan. She had to pass through a village where the peasants were celebrating an idolatrous festival and as she refused to join them they beat her to death. B.M, Baillet. Butler, from Fortnnatus, bishop of Poitiers who studied at Bavenna and gives this as the tradition of the place. The Acts of Vitalis and Valeria, and the apocryphal letter of St. Ambrose in which St. Vitalis is mentioned, were written in the 9th century. St. Valeria (3). (See Zenais (2).) St Valeria (4^ or Aubklia, Dec. 2, M. 3rd century. (See St. Mabtana.) SS. Valeria (5-12), honoured on different days as martyrs in Africa and other places. AA,SS. Stadler. St. Valeria (13), Aug. 7, Afba (4). SS. Valeria (14) and PoUena, Oct. 8. Perhaps 7th century. Honoured at Honnecourt (Hunonis curia) on the Scheldt, where the tradition is that they were sisters of St. Lifard or Lietfard and came with him from Canterbury in England. It has been thought that Pollena lived considerably earlier than Lietfard and Valeria, but nothing certain is known about them. AA.SS. Martin. Bucelinus. St. Valeriana (l), June 17, M. at Aquileia in Italy. AA,SS, St. Valeriana (2), Nov. 15, M. at Hippo, with St. Siddinus and twelve others. She is praised by St. Augustine. Stadler. Guerin. St. Valestrade, Vastrade. St. Vallarina Petrociani, Marina (10). St. Valpurge, Walburoa. St. Valtrude, Waltrude. B. Vanella of Narni, lived c. 1520. Bepresented with the title of Beata^ in the cloister of the convent of San Martino at Gubbio. Jacobilli, SS, deW Umbria, B. Vanna, Janb (7;. St. Varburgis, Bathildk (l). St. Varda, Vkuda, or Eosb, Feb. 21, + 344, with St. Daniel, a Christian priest subjected to horrible tortures and beheaded under Sapor, king of Persia. Guerin. Stadler. St Varelde, Pharaildis. St. Varula. {See Eomana (O).) St Varvara, Barbara. St. Vastrade or Valestbade, July 21. 8th century. Mother of St. Gregory, abbot and rector of the church of Utrecht. Grandmother of St. Alboric. Vastrade was worshipped in the convent of Susteren in the diocese of Boermond. AA,SS, St. Vaubou6 or Vaubourg, Wal- buroa. St. Vaudrfee, Waldrada. St. Vaudru, Waltrude. St Vausiee, Waldrada. St. Vaya, Bkoa (i). St. Vee, Sept. 6, patron of Norway. Same as Bega (1). St. Veep. Miss Amold-Forster says Veep is perhaps Wbnnap or Weneu, daughter of Brychan. St. Veerie, PharaKldis. St. Vega, Bbga. St. Vegue, Bega. St. Venciana, Vinciana. St. Vendreda, V. formerly honoured at Ely in England. Possibly some as Winifred. Gu6rin. St. Veneca, Venbtia or Ventsa, Feb. 26, 27, the woman cured by touch- ing the hem of Christ's garment. Honoured at Bois Guilliaume, near Rouen, and at Valenciennes, where, in the time of Henschenius, her image used to be so nearly concealed by the number of Yotive offerings, chiefly ribboDB, hung