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ST. GEBETRUDE 333 4- 1320. 3rd O.S.F. The pious governess and blood relation of St. Elzear de Sabran. He was so sensible of the good he owed her that when he and his wife, St. Delphina, intended to take a solemn vow of celibacy, he requested Delphina to come to Naples from their home in Provence for the ceremony, and to bring Garsenda, who would rejoice at this great step towards the salvation of her pnpil. She was ill and unable to come, so Elz6ar put off the function, and got leave from King Eobert to return to Provence rather than not have the blessing of the holy woman's presence, and to give her the satisfaction of seeing of the travail of her soul. They performed part of the ceremony in the church of Ansois, and the rest at the foot of Garsenda's sick bed. Having seen what she most desired on earth, she departed in peace in a few days. Baillet, Viesy " Elzear and Delphine." Prayer- book of 3rd O.S.F. St. Gaubourg, Walburga. St. Gaudentia (l), June 26, M. in Africa. Probably the same as SS. Gud- DENE and GuDDENT. Tillcmout, Histoire Eccleaiastique, bk. iii. Mas Latrie, TrSaor de Chronologie. St. Gaudentia (2), Aug. 30, V. M. at Rome with three others in the time of the heathen emperors. AA,SS. St. Gaudiosa, May 8 ^Glandiosa, Glaudiosa), M. at Constantinople with St. Acacius. {See St. Agatha (2).) AA.SS, St. Gaudosa, May G, M. at Milan. AA.S8. St. Gaudree, Waldrada. St. Gaulbourg, Walbubga. St. Gauld, GuDULA. B. Gausuenda, Galswintha. St. Gavina, May G, M. at Milan. AA.S8, Gu6rin. St. Gawdrysyve, Oct. 14, Anga- DUEsiMA (1), is 80 Called in the Martyr^ ology of Salisbury, St. Gawen, Cofen. St. Gebetrude, Sept. 17, Nov. 7 (Cebedrude, Cebetbude, Gebertbude, Gebtrude (3), Gobebtbudb, perhaps Gontrude (2), Tecta, Tetta (1)). 7th century. Granddaughter of St. Bomario. Third abbess of Habend. Not to be confounded with Gibitrude. When SS. Amatus and Bomaric had built the great double monastery of Habend, in the Vosges, St. Bomaric's married daughter Asselberga, being more worldly-minded than her sisters, who were nuns in the new monastery, was angry that her father had given so much to the Church and his new foundation, so she sent her little daughter to Bomario, hoping he would give the child the share of his property he had withheld from his daughter. The saint joyfully received the present of a little grand- daughter, christened her either Gebe- trude, Tetta, Tecta, or Gertrude, and gave her to the nuns to bring up. Asselberga, having gained nothing by sending her daughter, next sent her son to his grandfather, who gladly kept him also. St. Amatus was his godfather, and the two holy founders called him Adelphius,or Aliphius ; these two grand- children of St. Bomaric grew up saints in the monastery. Adelphius succeeded his grandfather as third abbot of the male side of the house, and Gebetrude succeeded her aunt, St. Gegobebga, as third abbess of the nuns. In 670 Adelphius went to the monas- tery of Luzeuil, to which Habend was subject, and there died. He was brought back to be buried in his own church, and his sister Gebetrude, at the head of all his monks and all her nuns, came out with music and candles and crosses to meet the funeral procession. St. Adelphius was laid in the church, and the mass was solemnized. When the psalm for the dead was being sung, the dead abbot joined distinctly in the sing- ing, and a pious priest, who was watch- ing by the bier, saw him raise his hand and make the sign of the cross. He called on G^d and St. Peter to wit- ness the truth of his statement. St. Gebetrude ordered the account of these wonderful circumstances to be written. The lives of St. Amatus, St. Bomaric, and St. Adelphius are to be found in the AA.SS., and in the AA.SS. O.S.B, The relationships of the saints to each other are not distinctly stated in the