and was blessed with visions. She saw Christ several times with her bodily eyes. She is mentioned by the three historians of the Order of Preachers, Manoel de Lima, Agiologio Dominico; Razzi, Predtcatori; and Pio, Uomini e Donne Illustri per Santtità.
St. Dota, Feb. 22, M. with St. Antiga.
St. Douceline, Dulcklina.
St. Drosis, Drozela, or Drusilla, Sept. 22, Y. M. Burnt at Antioch, in Syria, with five others. She was young and weak and delicate. Sometimes said to have been daughter of the Emperor Trajan, and this belief prevails among the Russians and Wallachians, but does not rest on any good authority. She is commemorated in the Greek Meneas, where her companions are called canonesses, i.e. nuns, or deaconesses. By one account SS. Callinica and Basilissa were among her five co-martyrs. By another they lived in the following century. Stilting in AA.SS. Græco-Slav, Calendar.
St Drozela, March 22. AA.SS. Probably Dkosis.
St. Drusa, Feb. 5, Dominica (4) of Glastonbury.
St. Drusilla, Drosis.
B. Duglioli, Sept. 23. Mas Latrie. Helen (19) Duglioli.
St. Dula (1), March 25, V. M. at Nicomedia. Represented dead, watched by a dog. Servant to a certain soldier. She was slain in defence of her chastity, and thus obtained the crown of martyr- dom. B.M. Cahier, Caractéristiques.
SS. Dula (2) and Cyria (3), April 5. Græco-Slav, Calendar, Possibly same as Pherbutha and Kyria.
St. Dulcelina, Dulcina, or Douceline. Oct. 2G or 29. Third O.S.F. at Marseilles. + c. 1282.
The piety of Italy and southern France in the middle of the 13th century showed itself in a rage for doing penance and crucifying the flesh. B. Hugh de Digne and his sister, Douceline, both of the Third Order of St. Francis, were distinguished actors in this movement.
She never took the veil, but wore the cord of St. Francis, and travelled through Provence, accompanied by eighty ladies of Marseilles, encouraging people to penitence. She was credited with the gift of healing the sick, and even raising the dead. She made a vow to observe with the greatest strictness the holy poverty of Jesus Christ as it was taught by St. Francis. She founded an institute of beguines. Virgins, widows, and even wives left their families to follow her.
She went into all Franciscan churches on her way, and remained in ecstasy, with her arms in the air, from the first mass to complines entirely absorbed in God. One day, being in a Franciscan church, a woman who did not believe in the reality of the ecstasy, pierced her spitefully with a bodkin. Dulcelina was unconscious of it, and did not move, but when she returned to her ordinary state she suffered from the wound.
Charles I., of Anjou, king of Naples, the first time he saw her in ecstasy, wished to ascertain whether there was any trick about it. He had a quantity of molten lead ready, and had it thrown at her bare feet. She did not feel it. After this he had a great esteem and affection for her. He was a little afraid of her, but consulted her on every important occasion. She was buried by the side of her brother Hugh at Marseilles, and her sepulchre was honoured with miracles. Gebhart, L'ltalie mystique, on the authority of "La Vie de Sainte Douceline, texte et traduction par l'Abbé Aubanes" (or Albanes?), Marseille, 1879. Mas Latrie.
She was aunt, or groat-aunt, of SS. Elzear and Delphine.
She is mentioned by Wadding in his Annals of the Franciscans, vol. ii., and in the Franciscan calendar, year 1282. The compilers of the AA.SS. consider her worship unauthorized.
St. Dulcissima, Sept. 16, V. M. at Sutri, in Tuscany. AA.SS, "ex Ferrarius." Mas Latrie.
Dulzelina, Dulcelina.
St. Durach, Duthrtjcht.
St. Duthrucht of Lemchoille, or Durach, Oct. 25. Daughter of Enna, son of Corbmach, of the family of Colla-da-Chrioch. AA.SS, inter prætermissos from the Mart of Tamlachf.
St. Dwynwen (l), Jan. 2.*). Patron of lovers. Daughter or granddaughter
