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 allowed to live in society, she would probably have proved a woman of superior powers of mind, and been active in good works as she was in evil, when driven to abandon her country, and put off the semblance of her own sex.

Donna Catalina set sail and arrived at Cadiz in 1624. Already her fame had preceded her, and during her travels through Spain and Italy she was looked upon as an object of curiosity. The Pope, Urban the Eighth, gave her permission to retain for life her male attire. The period of her death is unknown; but some documents which have been preserved in a convent at Vera Cruz, testify that she devoted the remainder of her life to commerce, under the name of Antonio de Erauso. The celebrated Spanish painter, Pacheco, took her portrait from life, when she was at Seville, which is still preserved.

ERDMUTHE, SOPHIA, MARGRAVINE, Baireuth, was born February 15th., 1644. True devotional feelings animated her mind already when quite a child, and these were guided by an intellect which belonged only to riper years. When she was in her tenth year she wrote a series of poetical and prose papers, and a volume, to which she gave the title of "Christian Closet for the Heart." Her teacher, the celebrated Dr. Weber, discovered them accidentally in her desk, and was so much struck with their beauty and pious tendency, that he prevailed upon her parents to have them published; and he accompanied them with a preface. Many of the hymns which she wrote at that age are still incorporated in the German books, though few know at the present time that they were composed by so young a child. In 1662, on the 19th. of October, she married the Margrave Christian Ernst of Baireuth, to whom she became a loving wife, and able coadjutor in deeds of charity and piety; but she would never consent to take part in his government affairs. She established the first Magdalene house of refuge in that part of Germany. Much of her time was devoted to writing. One of her best works was published in 1666, "A Treatise on the Age of the World, and a Consideration of the States of the Roman Empire, and their Condition." It is replete with theological, geographical, historical, and genealogical information. She died in the year 1670, on the 12th. of June, and was buried in the court chapel which she had just caused to be built.

ERINNA, lady cotemporary with Sappho; composed several poems, of which some fragments are extant in the "Carmina Novem Foetarum Seminarum" published in Antwerp, in 1568. She lived about B.C. 595. One of her poems, called "The Distaffs" consisted of three hundred hexameter lines. It was thought that her verses rivalled Homer's. She died at the age of nineteen, unmarried. There is another poetess of the same name mentioned by Eusebius, who flourished in the year B.C. 354. This appears to have been the poetess mentioned by Pliny as having celebrated Myro in her poems.

ERMENGARDE, HERMENGARDE. life of this queen is but a relation of her misfortunes. She