Gegoberga, under St. Mactaflede. The Bollandists mention her among the prætermissi, Sept. 30. There seems to be a doubt about this daughter of Romaric; she is not named in the oldest accounts of his family. Saussaye calls her "Blessed." Mart. Gallicanum.
St. Adilia or Odilia (2), June 30, Oct. 1, V. Abbess. O.S.B. 7th century. Daughter of the count of Hainault. Sister of St. Bavo. Aunt of Adeltrude (2). Abbess of St. Martin du Mont, a large Benedictine house at Orp, in Namur. Her convent was on a hill, and many pilgrims passed by the bottom of it without coming up. As hospitality was part of the rule of her Order, she built a church and hospice for beggars and travellers at the foot of the hill, and removed her community thither, that she might relieve their wants and be edified by the conversation of holy persons who wore on pilgrimage. Migne's Dictionary says, honoured at Orp-le-Grand, near Judoque, in Brabant. Papebroch. AA.SS. Boll. Bucelinus, Men. Ben. Martin, Surius, and French Mart. Molanus, Indiculo. SS. Belgii, places Adilia in the time of Childeric. Childeric II. reigned during part of 670, and was the son of St. Bathildis.
St. Adisela, Nov. 18, M., appears in the Labbean Mart. Boll., AA.SS. Supplement, iii.
St. Adjola or Ajola, June 1, abbess at Bourges in the 7th century. AA.SS. Boll.
St. Adla, Abdela.
St. Adnetta, Ada of Le Mans.
St. Adolena, Adela of Pfalzel.
St. Adonette, Ada of Le Mans. Cahier, Caractéristiques.
St. Adozina, Aug. 5, V. O.S.B. 10th century. Daughter of the count of Agueda, in Portugal. She imitated the heroic virtues of her brother, St. Rozendo, and followed him to the monastery of Cella Nova, in Galicia, where they took the habit of the Brothers of the Order of St. Benedict, and kept their rule. She died in the convent of Oporto. Azevedo, Pantheon.
St. Adrechild, Ada of Le Mans.
St. Adrehild, Ada of Le Mans.
St. Adriana (1), Sept. 17, M. in the time of the Emperor Adrian. AA.SS. Appendix.
B. Adriana (2), or Hadriana, Aug. 10, 27, July 16, O.S.F. † 1292. Sister of St. Margaret of Cortona, converted by the example of her penitence, and like her, took the habit of the Third Order of St. Francis, as did their friend B. Gilia or Egidia of Cortona, and, both became companions of Margaret, in her works meet for repentance, and died before her. All three are buried in the church of the Friars Minors, in Cortona (Jacobilli, SS. dell' Umbria). S. F. Ordenskalendar says Adriana died immediately after winning the indulgence of Portiuncula at Assisi, and went straight into heaven, without passing through the fires of purgatory. A note in the same calendar, Aug. 2, the Feast of Portiuncula, says that plenary indulgence is to be had once for one's self, and afterwards for the poor souls in purgatory, as often as, after Absolution and Holy Communion, one visits a church of the Franciscan brothers, and prays, "nach der Meinung der katholischen Kirche."
St. Adumade, Hadumada.
St. Adunalif, Adelviva.
St. Ægina, May 18 (Agna, Egena), M. at Constantinople. AA.SS. Boll.
St. Æmiliana. There are two of this name in the R.M. See Emiliana.
St. Ærais or Herais, March 4. Put to the sword, with 150 other martyrs mentioned in a MS. Menea at Grotta Ferrata, and in some other Greek calendars. AA.SS.
St. Aesia, June 6 (Ayesia, Eusebia), M. 1st century. Matron. Commemorated with St. Zenais, or Susan. Disciple of St. Pancras, bishop of Tauromenium (now Taormina), in Sicily. AA.SS.
St. Affidia, or Aufidia, May 6, M. at Milan, under Maximian. AA.SS.
St. Affrenia, or Afra, Oct. 9, M. P.B.
St. Affrica, abbess of Kildare, 738, Colgan.
St. Afra (1), May 24, M. at Brescia, c. 133. Patron of Brescia. Wife of the prefect of Brescia, under the Emperor Hadrian. This Emperor is represented
