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268 B. EMERGORDIS Jan. 23,V.M. c. 304. Patron of Teruel. Invoked for colic. Eepresented with stones in her robe. Stoned to death by the heathens, while praying with other Christians at the tomb of St. Aqnes. Emerentia is only mentioned in the later editions of the Acts of St. Agnes. She is called her sister, bnt this is perhaps only in a spiritual sense. The B.M. says she was her foster-sister. She was a catechumen and nnbaptized. B,M. Butler. Baillet. Neale, Church Hi»iory, B. Emergordis, June 9. Stadler gives her as a British countess married to Count Conan ; afterwards she worked hard at her salvation for eleven years in a convent in France. St. Bernard addressed a letter to her. Probably he means B. Ermenoabd, duchess of Bre- tagne. St. Emeria (1), May 6, M. at Milan. AA,S8. St. Emeria (2), sometimes written for CiNERiA, or Eennbre, one of the three virgins who accompanied St. Begulus when he brought the relics of St. Andrew to Scotland. The others were Potentia and Triduana. Forbes, Scottish Kalen- darSf App., p. 453. St. Emerita (l), May 26, Dec. 3, V. M. 178. Sister of St. Lucius, first Christian king in Britain. He sought the friendship of the Eomans, and sent to the Pope, (St.) Eleutherius, to beg for Christian teachers for his country. He and many of his people were baptized. He built a church at Llandafif, which the Welsh hagiologists say was the first in Britain. He is believed to have died in 156, either at Gloucester or Glastonbury. Another legend, however, says that King Lucius and his sister Emerentia, after establishing Christianity in their own country, left their native land and their station, and became missionaries in Bavaria and Switzerland; that Lucius became Bishop of Chur, or Coire, in the Grisons, and both suffered martyrdom there. A bishop named Lucius is honoured there as a martyr, but it is by no means certain that it was the same person. Smith and Wace, Die. of Chris- tian Biog, Bees, Welsh Saints, There were six other martyrs of the name of Emerita at different times and places. B. Emigeard, April 5. Apparently same as Irmqard (2), who is buried at Cologne, near the church of the Three Kings. St. Emilia (l), one of the martyrs who died ii Blamdhva.) of Lyons, who in prison. (See St. Emilia (2), one of the martyrs of Lyons. Beheaded, being a Roman citizen. {See Blandina.) St. Emilia (3), Feb. 17, M. at Rome with many others. AA.SS, St. Emilia (4), May 23, M. in Afnca. AA.SS. B. Emilia (5) Bichieri, of Veroelli, Aug. 19. 1238-1314. O.S.D. Founder of the monastery of St Margaret of Vercelli. Represented: (1) painting; (2) kneeling before a cross, with rays round her head. When Emilia inherited some estates in 1254, she determined to build a Dominican convent, and live with some other religious women. She took the habit, and entered the convent in 1256, and became prioress in 1272. She was considered a saint, and invoked as such, and miracles rewarded those who sought her intercession. A.B,M. Pio, Uomini illustri per san- tithf from her Life, written by Sister Petronilla Bava, a nun in her convent. St. Emiliana (l), June 30. At the council held in Rome in 499, under SymmachuB, the Pope, one of the priests present was Eutychus, of St. Emiliana. It is believed that this saint lived and died in Rome. It is supposed she was a martyr, but her history is lost, and it is not even known where the church stood which was dedicated in her name. In the Boman Martyrology she is called a martyr. AA.SS. St. Emiliana (2), or JEmiliana, Jan. 5, Dec. 24, V. Sister of Thahbilla. E.Af., Jan. 5. " AA.SS. B. Emiliana (3) de Cerohi, May 21, June 2, more commonly called Humili- ANA, probably an intentional corruption, in allusion to her humility, was born at Florence about 1219, married about 1230, died 1246. She used to give