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ST. SALUSTIA 213 and cunning. He wrote to Pope Inno- cent III., that GhJicia, which was under the Bassian Chnrch, wished to join that of Rome, and had hegged Andrew of Hungary to give them his son for their king. The Pope of course encouraged the Hungarian rule. In 1217 the young couple went to reign in Galicia ; but as soon as the Archbishop of Onesna, in the name of Pope Honorius III., had set the crowns on the heads of Eoloman and Salome, the young king, in obedience to his father and the Pope, drove out the Eussian bishop and priests. At the same time, Andrew and Lestko quar- relled, and the Eussian princes took advantage of the confusion to forward their own ambitions. The war went on again with circumstances of gross bru- tality. The young king and queen shut themselves up, with a few followers, in the church of our Lady at Lemberg; but after three days, being in fear of starvation and doubtful as to the loyalty of their subjects, they surrendered to the Russian Prince Mstislaf, who imprisoned them in Tortschesk. Ajiother long and queen were chosen, but the Pope would not consent to the transfer, saying that Eoloman and Salome had received the crown on apostplic authority. Andrew, by threats and promises, induced the Russian princes to withdraw from the contest; at the same time, the Mongol invasion frightened them into suspending their private quarrels and personal am- bitions, that all Christendom might unite against the common foe. Thus it hap- pened that Eoloman and Salome were reinstated for a time; again exiled; a second time restored; Eoloman was finally expelled from Galicia a third time ; he returned to Hungary and fell in 1240, fighting against the Mongols. At his death, Salome transferred herself to the Second Order of St. Francis, and built a convent at Zawichost, where she collected a number of virgins and took the solemn vows of the Order of St. Clara. In 1260, when the Tartars overran Silesia and Moravia, they burnt her convent and massacred most of the nuns, beheading sixty of them at once. Salome happened to be absent. When she had buried her nuns, she built the convent of St. Mary's Stone at Zkamiena, or Skata ; she placed the survivors there and filled up their ranks with young girls. Hero she died Nov. 17, 12G8. Her tomb being honoured with miracles, her body was translated into the cathedral of St. Francis at Cracow, built by her brother Eing Boleslas. Clement X., in 1678, finding that the Poles had worshipped her for four hundred years and were in the habit of obtaining miracles through her intercession, allowed the whole order of St. Francis to celebrate her festival with a double rite on the anniversary of her death. A church was dedicated in the name of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin and B. Salome, at Skata, in 1642 ; but it fell to ruins in thirty-five years. Salome is called Saint by the Polish and some other historians. Blessed in the B.M.^ O.S.F., and by Hueber and Ferrarius. Dlugosch. Mailath. Earamsin. Fer- rarius, Catalogus. Moroni, Dizumario. Lambertini, Be Servorum Bet. AA,SS., " CuNEGUND, July 24." Eobielski, Flores VitsB B. SahmesB Virginis, Hueber, Franciscan Menology, Pertz. St. Salomonia, Salome (1). St. Salonica, Salonita, or Solonita. June 25, M. with others, in Thessalonica. AA.SS. St. Salpumia, June 2, one of two hundred and twenty-seven Roman mar- tyrs commemorated in the Martyrology of St. Jerome on this day. AA.SS, St. Salsa (1), Salfa. St. Salsa (2), Oct. lO, M. Africa, in the 1st, 2nd, drd, or 4th century. AA,SS. St. Salustia or Sallustia, Sept. 14, M. 252. When St. Cornelius, pope and martyr, was led by soldiers to a heathen temple where the Emperor Decius had ordered that he should sacrifice, one of the soldiers, named Cerealis, asked him, by the way, to visit his wife, Salustia, who had been paralyzed and helpless for five years. He went, and cured her at once. She begged him to baptize her, and ran to fetch him some water for the purpose ; the other soldiers seeing the miracle were converted and baptized. Then Cerealis and Salustia, with Cornelius