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305 ST. WULPILDA 805 remained the rest of her life there, in ' divine contemplation. St. Boniface at- tests her piety. She is not worshipped. AA,88, Oyneceeum. Stadler. St. Wivin, ViuviNB, or Vivina, Dec. 17, V. abbess, O.S.B. + 1170. Re- presented holding a book, perhaps the psalter, which was all she took when she left her Other's house ; also a candle which an angel lights while the devil makes his escape. Patron against apo- . plexy, plenrisj, and sudden death. She was of a noble family in Flanders. Bent on a religious and celibate life, she left her home with her friend B. Emvura, taking no property or pro- visions except her psalter. They lived in the woods for several years but even- tually Godfrey, count of Babrant, gave them an estate near Brussels, on which, in 1133, they built the Benedictine nun- nery of the great Bigaerde, where Wivin became abbess. As lights shone out of her grave, she was taken up and exposed for ihe veneration of the people, by order of Alard, bishop of Cambrai. B.M. Le Mire, Fasti. Bucelinus. Cahier. Stadler. Migne, Die. des Ahhayes. Lechner. St. Wjera. (See Faith, Hope, and Charity.) St. WOdolana. A fountain in Bo- hemia, on a wooded hill, called Dreatobor (the holy pine-wood), near the town of Sussic, cures various diseases. The origin of the fountain is this. A certain pious virgin was dying and prayed her friends to place her body after death on a car and harness two oxen to it. When they came to the place above-mentioned they would go no further. She was buried there, and near her grave a fountain burst forth. In the days of Chanowski, the fountain had been in veneration time out of mind, and was called Wodolanka and the village near it Wodolanij ; it is therefore supposed that the name of the saint was Wodolana. The peasants in time of drought, draw water from this well and put some into their own wells and fountains, in the hope of obtaining rain. Chanowski, Vestigia. St. Wolfridai Wulfbida. B. VJoyslawSLf Sinoyslawa, q^ w y- VOL. n. ^ SLAVA, May 27, Aug. 12, Nov. 22, a recluse, of the noble family of Qutten- stein, and sister of St. Hrosnata, monk and martyr, who is one of the native patron saints of Bohemia. In 1126, as the widow of Prince Otto of Cracow, she became a recluse in the newly founded Premonstratensian monastery of Tepl. Some time afterwards she removed to Chotinschau, where her sister Judith was a nun. Woyslawa died in the odour of sanctity, May 27. AA.S8. Stadler. St Wulf, Ulphia. St. Wulfetrude, Nov. 23 (Vife- TRUDB, ViLISfB^TRUIT, VlU^FRl^TUn), VlL- P^TRUY, VULFEDBUDE, VULFBTBUDIS, Wilfetrude), V. -I- 670, second abbess of Nivelle. Her aunt, the first abbess, St. Qertbude (5) resigned the office to her when she was hardly twenty. She ruled for about ten years. Petin, Die. Hag, Lechner. St. Wulf hide or Wulfhild (i) WULFILDA. B. Wulfhild (2), May 28, 8. 13th century. She was of the house of Guelph. Daughter of Henry the Black, duke of Bavaria. When young she had a voca- tion to a religious life, but was married to Eodolph, last count of Bregenz and Pfnllendorf. Left a widow, she took the veil at Weissenbrun or Weissobrun. She was so amiable that the nuns called her " the angelic." Although she had forsaken the outer world, secular persons appealed to her as a peacemaker. More than once the members of her family being at loggerheads, made her umpire, and such was their faith in her virtue, that she succeeded in restoring peace. Migne, Die. Hag. Stadler. St. Wulfilda, Wulfhild, or Wulf- hide, Dec. 10, V. -f- c. 980 or 990. Abbess of Barking. Founder and ab- bess of Horton. She was brought up in the monastery of Winchester. The king fell in love with her. It is generally said this king was Edgar ; Butler calls him Edward. Presents, messages, offers being of no avail, he gained over an aunt of the young saint, and she feigned ill- ness and sent for her niece to attend on her. When Wulfilda arrived at the house, she found she had been entrapped there only to meet the king, and his X