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30 30 SS. MARIAMNA AND PHILIPPA worship for a time, but ibrongh some cause of dissatisfaction the people rose in a sedition against them and hung Philip by his bead, from a pillar, and fastened Bartholomew and Mariamna on crosses. The earth then suddenly sank to a great depth, engulfing the proconsul and a great number of the rioters and spectators. The people understood this calamity to be a judgment for their conduct to the holy preachers, and begged their forgiveness. Mariamna and Bartholomew prayed Philip to free the populace from their danger: the earth returned to its usual level ; all the people were saved except the pro- consul. He was left in the abyss with the viper, which had escaped in the con- fusion. Batholomew and Mariamna were released, and Philip, who was already dead, was buried with fitting honours. Bartholomew afterwards preached in India, and Mariamna having preached the gospel and baptized many converts in Lycaonia, died there in peace. The Latin Acts of St. Philip do not give him any sister ; but two daughters, virgins, buried with him. Bollandus thinks the story of Mariamna possibly makes some confusion with St. Philip the deacon. AA.SS. Menology of Basil, SS. Mariamna (2) and Philippa (1), W., May 1. Daughters of St. Philip the apostle. Tradition says Philip had three daughters, two of whom (Mariamna and Philippa) re- mained at Jerusalem until they died at a great age and were buried there on each side of their father; the third was Hbrmionb. Some legends add a fourth, Eutyche. Their names are not mentioned in any of the old martyr- ologies. Some of the hagiologists appear to confound the daughters of St. Philip the apostle with those of St. Philip the deacon : " four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy" (Acts xxi. 9). AAJSS.y « St. Philip,*' May 1, Introduction. St. Mariamna (3). See Thecla (16). St Mariana (l) or Marina, March 16, y. M. in the year 253, at Antioch. She was afterwards translated into Spain. AA.SS. St. Mariana (2), Ketevax. B. Mariana (3) or Marianka, of Jesus, May 25,' 16 18-1 645, V. Marianna Paredes y Flores, called the "lily of Quito," was born at Quito in Peru. She devoted herself to Qod from her early youth, seeking especially the grace of purity ; and knowing that that virtue could not be cultivated in a life of ease and pleasure, she subjected her body to severe and extraordinary penances. She is said to have preseifVed her country, by her prayers, from the scourge of earthquake and pestilence. After her death many miracles were wrought by her intercession. She was solemnly beatified by Pius IK. in 1853, and her life, written on that occasion, was pub- lished by Agostini at Turin, in 1858, in the Collezione di huoni libri. La CinUtd Cattolica, Dec. 3, 1853. Diarxo di Boma, Nov. 21, 1853. B. Mariana (4) of Jesus, Mart (67). Mariana (5) or Marianna Fontan- ella, Mary (70). St. Mariminia, Arminia (2). St. Marina (l), June 18, M. at Alex- andria. Her martyrdom is commemo- rated, June 18 ; her translation to Venice, July 17. JB.itf. SS. Marina (2-11), appear as MM. in different places. One of them is also called Marcina (June 8). The great V. M. St. Margaret, and some of the other Margarets are sometimes called Marina. Calendars. St. Marina (12), July 17, V. M. at Antioch in Pisidia. Daughter of a heathen priest. She underwent diverse tortures on account of her Christian faith and was then put in prison, where a dragon appeared to her; its neck was encircled by horrid serpents which hissed at the young saint. She killed it with the sign of the cross. Next day she was thrown into a lake; a white dove ap- peared over her, blessed the water and baptized the maiden. Marina was taken uninjured from the lake and beheaded. Men. of Basil, St. Marina (13) or Margaret, July 18, V. M. at Orense or Amphilocbium in Galicia, Spain. She and her eight sisters were daughtera of Attilius and lived at Belcagia. They left their father there and went to Orense, where Marina