Fracan is perhaps Brychan. Compare St. Almheda.
Juhaël's wife was Prizal, or Pritella, princess of Leon, in Bretagne. Besides their two holy daughters, six at least of their sons were saints: Judicaël, or Gicquel, who succeeded to the kingdom, + c. 652; Judoc, or Josse, king and monk; Winnoc, abbot of Wormholt, in Flanders; and Judganokh, Gamel, and Gladran. There is a church in honour of Ste. Eurielle at Tremeur, near Dinan, and her worship is of very long standing in Brittany. AA.SS., from Albert le Grand de Morlaiz. Mas Latrie, Trésor.
St. Eurole, or Eurosia, Orosta.
St. Eurosia, Ephrasia.
St. Eusebia (l), Jan. 24 (Euxima, Euximia, Theodula, Xene). + 283. Mother of the holy children Urban, Prilidian, and Epolonius, aged seven, nine, and twelve. Disciples of St. Babylas, bishop of Antioch. He would not allow the Emperor Numerian to enter the church to profane it, and the children would not disobey their bishop by opening the gates, and were therefore beheaded with him. Their mother was called upon to make a public profession of her faith, which she did, and for saying they did well to obey their master was scourged. She is placed among the saints by some writers, but her name is not in the Greek Calendars. Bollandus, AA.SS., Jan. 24. Præter.
St. Eusebia (2), or Æsia, June 6, M. Matron, disciple of St. Pancras (April 3), bishop of Tauromenium, in Sicily, commemorated with St. Zenaïs (5).
St. Eusebia (3), Oct. 29, V. Patron of Bergamo, conjointly with her brothers Domnus and Domnius, and there called a martyr of the time of Diocletian (early in 4th century), but Victor de Buck thinks she lived in the 7th century, while Baillet seems to think her very existence fictitious. She and her brothers are claimed as members of the noble family of Zoppi (also called of Claudia). Several distinguished families in Italy, and particularly Lombardy, claim collateral descent from some martyr or saint. V. de Buck in the AA.SS. Bolandi. Baillet, Vies des Saints.
St. Eusebia (4) Hospita, or Euximia, or Xene, Jan. 24, Jan. 30 in the Syrian Church. 5th century. A member of a newly ennobled Roman family. At the moment of her marriage she escaped, accompanied by two maids, all three disguised as men. She told them to call her no longer Eusebia, but Hospita, a stranger. After much wandering they came to Mylas, in Caria, where she built a small chapel in honour of St. Stephen, and there she and her maids lived with some other good women, who joined them in leading a religious life. She died unknown. AA.SS., Appendix, May. Ephemeris Græco-Moscœ. Fiamma, Vite de Santi. Cahier calls her abbess, and says that at the moment of her death a cross of bright stars appeared over her head.
St. Eusebia (5), March 16, Nov. 13, May 17, Oct. 28 (Eusoye, Ysoie). Second Abbess of Hamay. 637-660, or about 680. Daughter of St. Adalbald and St. Rictrude. Great-granddaughter of St. Gertrude of Hamay. Sister of SS. Maurontius, Clotsendis, and Adalasenda.
Eusebia was born towards the end of the reign of Dagobert I.; his wife. Queen Nantilda, was her godmother, and presented her with the fine estate of Verny, in the neighbourhood of Soissons. When she was two years old, St. Amand (who was the friend and adviser of her family) founded the abbey of Marchiennes, in Brabant. When Eusebia was eight, her father, St. Adalbald, was murdered on a journey into Gascony to visit his friends and his wife's estates. (See St. Rictrude.) The following year, Rictrude, with her three daughters, went to live in the nunnery she had nearly finished building, near St. Amand's monastery at Marchiennes. On the other side of the river Scarpe, in Hainault, stood the double monastery of Hamay, built by St. Gertrude, grandmother of St. Adalbald. Here, as at Marchiennes, there was a community of men and another of women dwelling in cloisters entirely separate. Gertrude, who was still abbess there, asked Rictrude to give her her daughter Eusebia, whom she adopted and appointed her heiress. On the death of
