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ST. EPIPHANIA 271 stands Sepnlved (Septempublica), on the side of a hill called Orospecta. There they led an angelic and ascetic life until the whole country near and around them was attacked by the Moors. Fructns assisted in the defence of the country, and died aged seventy-three, haying worked very hard for the good of the Christians. In 1123, he was appointed by Pope Calixtus II. one of the patrons of Segovia. Valentine and Engratia buried him and then removed to Cuellar, five leagues south-east of Segovia, where they were eventually beheaded by the Moors, and their heads thrown into a well called to this day the Saints' Fountain. No contemporary record. AA.SS. St Engrasse, Engratia. St. Enhilda. Middle of 8th century. Abbess of Nidermunster, or Bas Hohen- burg, in Alsace, where she succeeded St. GuNDELiNDA. Miguc, Dic. Hag, St. Ennatha, Nov. 13 (Enathas, Ennata, in the Greek Church Manatho), y . M. 308. Native of Scythopolis, near the lake of Gennesareth. After cruel tortures and indignities, burnt at Cesarea, in Palestine. B.M. Baillet, from Eusebius. St. Enneim. (See Thbcla (16), Mabiamna, etc.) St. Enoch, Thennkw. St. Enodoc, or Wknodoc, March 7. Is possibly the same as St. Gwenddydd, a daughter of Brychan. (See Almheda.) F. Arnold Forster. St. Enora or Honoka, patron of wet nurses. Daughter of an Irish king. Wife of St. Efifam. At St. Malo, nurses whose milk fails ofifer a bottle of cow's milk in the chapel of St. Enora, always with good effect. Menzel, Ohristliche Symholik, Cahier. St. Enymie, Oct. 6 (Emmia, Ermia, Ernia, perhaps Onzimia, or Onzinia), V. Abbess. 6th, 7th, or 8th century. Eepresented with a serpent. Princess of France. Tradition says she was the daughter of Clothaire II., and that he arranged an advantageous marriage for her; but as she preferred the silence of the cloister to a worldly life, however brilliant, she prayed for some disfigurement which should prevent her marriage. She then became a leper, and was only cured when the alliance was broken off. Her brother Dagobert, king, assisted her in building a double monastery on a hill overhanging the Tarn : it was either at Bouergue or at Givaudan, in Auvergne. She freed the neighbouring country from a plague of serpents. AA.SS. Buoelinus. Cahier. F.M. Chastelain. St. Eodety Hauda. St. Eonfled, Eanpleda. St. Eorcungoda, Ebcongota. St. Eormenbeorga, or Eormenburh, EElfENBUBGA. St. Eormeng^lda, or Eormenhilda, or EoRMHiLD, Ebmenilda. St. Ephrasia, or Eurosia, or Orosia, y. M. of virginity. Invoked for rain and against tempests. Aunt of St. Aqnes of Bohemia. Betrothed to the King of Spain. On her way thither she was captured by Moorish robbers in the Pyrenees, and killed by them in defence of her vir- ginity. Distinguished by miracles from the time of her death. The place of her martyrdom has been thought to be Jacca, in Aragon, nineteen leagues north of Saragossa. Chanowski, Bohemia, She is mentioned by Mariana in his history of Spain. St. Epicharis, Sept. 27, Matron, M. End of 3rd or beginning of 4th century. In the persecution of Diocletian, she was beaten with leaded scourges by four lictors, who were killed by angels ; she was then condemned to be beheaded. When sentence was pronounced, water gushed out of a stone under her feet. Her head was then struck off by the sword of the executioner. She was baried by Felix, a senator, and miraculous cures were wrought at her tomb. The Menology of the Emperor Basil says Borne was the pLeMse of her martyrdom, but the compilers of the AA.SS. think it more likely that it occurred at Constantinople. St. Epiphania (1), or Epiphana, July 12, May 10, V. M. with circum- stances of especial barbarity, under Dio- cletian, at Lentini, in Italy, or Leontini, in Sicily. B.M., July 12. AA.SS., May 10. St. Epiphania (2;, of Pavia, Oct. 6