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296 B. EUPHROSYNE died about the middle of the century, coDspicuous in life and death by her miracles. She was perhaps living when St. Alexander Nevski became grand prince. Earamsin, Bussie, ir, Oraeco- Slav. Calendar, B. Euphrosyne (10). B. Ida, of Liege, is sometimes so called, in allusion to the meaning of the name (Fair and Good). Euphrosjrne (ll). St. Cathebine OF Siena is sometimes so called. St. Euphrosjrne (12), or Eudoxia, July 7. Grand-princess of Bussia. + 1401. Daughter of Dmitri Constan- tinovitch, prince of Suzdal, who had been grand prince 1359-1362. Euphro- syne married, in 1367, the famous Grand Prince Dmitri lyanovitch, surnamed Donskoi (Tanaicus), from his great battle against the Tartars, at Eulikovo, on the banks of the Don, Sept. 8, 1380. Euphrosyne frequented the churches day and night, and is thought to have con- tributed to her husband's success against the infidels by her feryent prayers and liberal alms. It was the first victory the Bussians had gained over the Tartars for more than a hundred years. The deliyerance from their oppression did not come immediately, but the relative position of the two nations began to turn. Still, on the anniversary of that good fight, solemn prayers are offered all over Bussia for the thousands of pious Bussian souls who left their bodies on that glorious field. Dmitri was distinguished by every noble and princely virtue. He was the son, though not the imme- diate successor, of Ivan Kalita, duke of Moscow and grand prince. Dmitri Donskoi died in 1389. Euphrosyne survived him several years, during which she kept up the dignity of her station, always appearing in magnificent robes, but secretly wearing iron chains under her fine clothes, and practising extreme asceticism, which she only made known to her sons, because they were distressed that people thought her worldly, and did not esteem her as they ought. She said it was well for her that people should humiliate her and speak ill of her. She built several churches, and founded, in 1389, the Convent of the Ascension, in the Kremlin at Moscow, and there, a short time before her death, she took the monastic habit, and with it, according to Martinov, the name of Eudoxia. Earamsin, however, says her name was originally Eudoxia, and she changed it to Euphrosyne on taking the veil. She was buried in the church of this monastery, and it thenceforth became the burying-place of all the grand- princesses of Moscow and their daughters. Their tombs are to be seen there side by side, Eudoxia's at the beginning of the raw. She wrought miracles both during her life and after her death. Hare, BuBsitty p. 273. Earamsin, iv. Martinov, Annua Ecd. Balston, Early Bussian History, St. Euphrosyne (13). 15th cen- tury. 3rd O.S.F. Nun at St. Sepulcro (Biturigia), in Umbria, under her cousin B. Euphrasia (12). Jacobilli. St. Eupraxia, or Euphrasia, is pro- bably the elder of the Euphrasias of Thebai's, mother and daughter. AAJSS. St. Euprepia, Aug. 12, M. Servant of St. Afra, of Augsburg. B.M. SS. Euprexia, widow, and her daughter Theognia, Y. Honoured at Menis, a very ancient city between Enna and Syracuse. AA.SS. St. Euplia, Sept. 10 (EuFERiA, EuPLius), M. with others at Cfesarea, in Cappadocia. AA.SS. St. Eupuria, May 16, V. Works miracles at Graeta. History unknown. Henschenius, in AA.SS. St. Euralia, or Gallalia, Dec. 10, V. Eurg^ain. Middle of 6th century. Daughter of Meslgwn Gwynedd, and wife of Elidyr Mwynfawr, founder of Llaneurgain, or Northop, in Flintshire. Bees, 261. SS. Euriella (Curiella, Eurilla, Vuelie) and Onenne, or Ouenne, Oct. 1. 6th and 7th centuries. Were among the twenty or twenty-four children of St. Juhael, king of Domnouia, a small kingdom of Bretagne, comprising the districts afterwards called Arcouet and Trecouet on the northern coast, where the village and parish of Plou Fragan, on the gulf of Saint Brieuc, still per- petuate the name of thoir ancestor Fracan (5th century). (^Plou means trilte.)