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(2) Lbopou>o, Italian dramatic poet, b. at Ceva in 1831; d. 1899, SOD of Carlo Marenco. Like his fattier he held a government post under the Treasury Depart- ment, one which toolchimtoSardinia. In ItiQO be became Professor of Latin literature at Bologna and later occupied aaimilarcbair at Milan. In 1871 he retired to Turin. Hia plays in verse, written after I860, are more notable for their lyrical qtialities than they are tot excellence of dramatic technique. Among them are "Celeste", "Tempeate alpine", " Maroeliina ", "H falconiere cli Pietra Ardena", "Adelasia", "La fami^ia". "Carmela". "Piccarda Dorati", "Saffo", " Ro^liuda ", etc. SuDJects from modern and medie- val history 'were treated by him, and he followed his father's example in drawing from Dante. See the coU lection of his plays, "Teatro di L, M." (Turin, 1884). J. D. M. Ford.

Hamulo, Luca, musical composer, b. in 1550 at Coccaglia, near Brescia; d. at Rome 1599. Hia chief legacy to the musical world are his books of madrigals. His first collection was published in IS81 and was dedicated to Alphonse d'Este, the duke of Ferrsra. Many of bis 159 Madrigals and Motets have been translateil into modern notation by Proske. A number of madrigals were published in 15S3 in "Musica Trans-Alpina"; this collection became fm-

of more illustrious church musicians. In a collec- tion tailed "Viilanelle e Arie alia NapoUtana" he has left 113 exquisite madrigals and motets for three and four voices. The most notable of his composi- tions may be found printed in modern notation by Proske in "Musica Di>nna", II (Ratisbon, 1853),

ROBU, Eloai Iliilorici lit Bretciani illuatri (Braacia, 1620): PucHA-j, Tin CompUatGtrUUman (Isndon, 1022).

WiLUAM Finn.

Margaret, Saint, Virgin, and Mahtyr, also called Marina, belonged to Pisidian Antioch in Asia Minor, where her father was a pagan priest. Her mother dying soon after her birtti. Margaret was nursed by a pious woman five or six leagues from Antioch. Having embraced Christianity and consecrated her vir- ginity to God, she was disowned by her father and adopted by her nurse. While she was one day en- raged in watching the flocks of her mistress, a lustful Roman prefect named Olybrius faught sight of her, and attracted by her great beauty sought to make her his concubine or wife. When neither cajolery nor threats of punishment coutd succeed in moving her to yield to his desires, he had her brought be- fore him in public trial at Antioch. Threatened with death unless she renounced the Christian faith, the holy virgin refused to adore the gods of t he empire, and an attempt was made to bum her, but the Ramcs, we are told in her Acts, left her unhurt. She was then bound hand and Coot and thrown into a cauldron of boiling water, but at her prayer her bonds were broken and she stood up uninjured. Finally the pre- fect ordered her to be (jeheaded. The Greek Church honours her under the name Marina on 13 July; the Latin, as Margaret on 20 Julv. Her Acta place her death in the persecution ot t)ioclelian (a. d. 303-5), bat in fact even the century to which she belonged is uncertain. St. Margaret is represented in art some- times asa shepherdess, or as leading a chained d rages, again carrying a little cross or a girdle in her hand, or standing by a large vessel which recalls the cauldron into which she was plunged. Relics said to belong to the saint are venerated in ve^ many parts of Europe: at Rome, Monfefiascone, Brussels. Bruges. Paris, Froidmont, Troves, and various other places. Cu- riously enough this virgin has been widely venerated for many centuries as a special patron of women who are pnganut.

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Saintt, 20 July.

J. UacRoby.

Margaret Ooloona, Blbbsed, Poor Clare, b. in

Rome, date uncertain; d. there, 20 September, 1284. Her parents died in Rome when she was still a young girl, and she was left to the care of her two brothers, the youngest of whom was raised t« the cardinalate by Nicholas III in 1278. Having resolutely refused the proposal of mard^o made to her by the chief magistrate of Rome, she retired to a lonely retr^t near Palestrina where she passed her time in prac- tices of piety and penance. Her charity towards the poor was unbounded, and was more than once mi- raculously rewarded. Through the influence of her brother. Cardinal Coloima, Blessed Margaret obtained the canonical erection of a community of Urbanist ftwrCiarcsat Palestrina, of which she most probably became superioress. Seven j'ears before her death she was attacked njth a fearful and painful ulcer which till the end of her life she bore w ith the most sublime and generous resignation. After the death of Blessed Mai^ garet, the commui>itj- of Palestrina was transferred to the convent ot San Sdvestro in Copite. The nuns were driven from their cloister by the Italian Goverijment at the time of the suppression; and the monastei^- has since been used as the central posUoffice of Rome. The exiled religious found shelter in the convent of Santa Cecilia in Tmsteverc, to which place the body of Blessed Margaret was removed.

Leo, Lica oft'" Sainti oiid BlrurdofVit Thra Order* ot St. Fnneit [TBuntoD. 18S7) IV, TO-73. '

STErHEN M, Donovan,

as she was familiarly styled, b. in Cavan, Ireland, about 1814; d. at New Orleans, Louioana, 9 February, 1882. Herparenls, Charles and Mar- garet O'Rourke Gaffncy, died at Baltimore, Mary- land, in 1822 and

i left to her □ resources and was thus deprived of acquiring a knowled ge of read- in g and writing. A kind - hearted family of Welsh

tered the little or- phan in their home. In 1835 she there married Charles Haughery and went to New Orleans with him. Within a year her husband and in- fantdled. It was then she began her great career of charity. She \. „3emploj;ed in theorphao asylum and when the orphans were without food she bouRht it for them from her earnings. The Female Or- phan Asylum of the Sisters of Charity built in 1840 waa practically her work, for she cleared it of debt*. _ Dui^ mg the yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans in the fifties she went about from house to house, without regard to race or creed, nursing the victims and con- soling the dying mothers with the promise to look after their little ones. St. Teresa's Church was prac- tically buiit by Margaret, in conjunction with Sister Francis Regis. Margaret first established a dairy and drove around the city delivering the milk beraelf;