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ST. EUPHEMIA 280 Enlampins went into tbe town to buy food, and was taken by the gnards and dragged to the temple. There he prayed, and the idols fell down. The goYemor would have let him go if he would have submitted, but he defied the powers and the gods, and was put to tiie torture. His little sister heard of it, and came running; she rushed amongst the soldiers and threw her arms round her brother. Both were cast into a fire together, but remained unhurt. This miracle con- verted two hundred soldiers, all be- headed with the martyred children. B.M. Menology of Basil AA.SS. St. Eulodia, or Alodia, M. with St. NUNILO. St. Eunica, March 7 (Leunuoa, Lbununcula), M. in Thrace, with two Dandas and others. AA.SS. St. Eunice, March 11. Mother of St. Timothy. She was a Jewess, her husband a Greek (2 Tim. i. 6; Acts xvi. 1). She and Lois are commemo- rated by Arturus, but rejected by Hen- schenius from the number of saints to be worshipped. AA.SS. St. Eunice, Oct. 28. (See Bela.) St. Eunomia, Aug. 12. Servant of St. Afra of Augsburg. B.M. St. Euodias. Called in the Boman CathoHc Bible Evodia (PhU. iv. 2). Called by St. Paul one of his fellow- workers whose names are in the Book of Life, and exhorted to *^ be of the same mind" with Syntychk. Euodia evi- dently lived at Philippi, and was appa- rently one of those who sent to St. Paul such things as he stood in need of, to Thessalonica, and afterwards by Epaphro- ditus to Home. St. Eupatronia, Clbopatronia. St. Eupelia, May 30, M. Honoured in the Greek Church. Guerin. St. Euphemia (l), or Effam, Sept. 3, of Aquileia. V. M. with her sister, St. Dorothy (1), and their cousins, SS. Thkcla and Erasma. Time of Nero. Ptttron of Rovigo and Istria. Euphemia and Dorothy were daughters of Yalens, or Valentius, a heathen ; Thecla and Erasma were daughters of his brother Yalentinian, a Christian, who instructed them all four in his faith. They were baptized in the river Natis, and consecrated to a religious life by B. Hermacora, the bishop. Soon after- wards, Yalens wanted to give the two eldest to the husbands he had chosen for them ; they declined, and he ran at them with his sword, but they escaped to their uncle's house, where they were concealed for some time, but were betrayed by a servant The traitor was presently seized by a devil,*and ran and drowned himself in the river. Yalens took Euphemia and Dorothy, and gave them over to be punished as Christians. They underwent the usual tortures and outrages, and finally were beheaded by their faUier in a tower, which he had built for them. He threw their heads into the river; the tower was imme- diately struck by fire from heaven, and he and his accomplices were burnt in it. Then Yalentinian and the bishop went by night to look for the bodies, and found at first only the breasts, which had been cut off and thrown to the dogs to eat. They had turned into roses, and the dogs were watching by them. Then they went to look in the river for the heads, and a celestial boat appeared, bearing those sacred relics, and guided by two angels. The origin of the tower is thus told by Peter Calo. Euphemia and Dorothy being sought in marriage by some of their neighbours, Yalens would not give them, because they were very young, and he was very fond of them, and wanted to keep them with him. He ordered a tower to be built for them close to the river Natissa, and adjoining his house. While it was building, he made a journey to Tergeste. Dirring his absence, the young saints asked the builder what the tower was for. Being told it was for them to live in, and that it was to have two windows, they begged him to make a third window larger than the others, and he did so. The lower part of the tower was provided with arches through which the river Natissa flowed, and served as a bath for the young ladies. The body of St. Euphemia is worshipped at Eavenna. B.M. AA.SS. Mart, of Salisbury, St. Euphemia (2) of Chalcedon, September 16, May (Effam in the u