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ST. JANE 428 to approve the immemorial worship of the B. Juana de Aza; which was con- firmed by the Congregation of Eites the following year. She is called *' Saint *' by the Dominicans. AM'M,, Aug. 2. Hernando del Cas- tillo, Hist, Oen. de S. Domingo, Horter, iii. chap. 25. Butler. Diario di Boma^ 1828. B. Jane (5), Dec. 5, countess of Flanders, + 1244. Daughter of Coun Baldwin, who became Emperor pf the East. She married (1) Ferdinand, son of King Sancho of Portugal ; (2) Thomas, brother of the Count of Savoy. She ruled the county of Flanders very wisely and benevolently. She built the Cister- cian convent of Marquette. With her husband's consent, she took the veil there. A few days afterwards she died. Lechner, Benedictine Mart, B. Jane (6), or Saintb Jeanne, the Bbgluse, May 4. Tradition says she was a recluse for twenty years near Arrivoir. In 1 246, her body was brought on this day to the celebrated Cistercian monas- tery of Arrivoir (diocese of Troyes). In the middle of the 17th century the monks had no knowledge of her history and no special service in her honour; but it was customary to ring the bells repeatedly in memory of her on the anniversary of her translation thither. AA,SS. Mas Latrie. B. Jane (7) of Orvieto, July 23, + 1308, 3rd O.S.D. Giovanna, com- monly called Yanna, was a native of Carnajola, near Orvieto in Tuscany. She was left an orphan very young, but by taking St. Michael the Archangel for her guardian and patron, she preserved her baptismal innocence and was remark- able for her piety and industry. She became a nun of the third order at Orvieto. When she meditated on the martyrdom of a saint, she used uncon- sciously to follow the movements of the martyr. Once on the festival of SS. Peter and Paul, she meditated first on the mart3rrdom of St. Peter, and fidling into an ecstasy, she was found extended in the form of a cross with her head down, as it is recorded that that apostle suffered. Passing on to the subject of the martyr- dom of St. Paul, she fell to the ground with her head stretched out as if waiting for the executioner's stroke. When she had been twelve years in the convent, on Good Friday, as she meditated on the crucifixion, die became stiff and rigid in the form of a cross, and after a time, fell to the ground with a great noise, as if all her bones were broken and iJl her joints dislocated, and thus she remained until night. This mercy was granted to her every Good Friday for ten years. On the feast of the Assumption of the B. y. Mart, she was raised more than a yard from the ground, and continued so for an hour with her hands outstretched towards heaven. She performed miracu- lous cures before and after her death, which occurred in 1308, at the age of forty-two. Mart, FF, Prsedicatorum. Pio. Hernando del Castillo. B. Jane (8), June ll, 14th century. Jeanne or Diane do Villeneuve. Car- thusian nun. Aunt and instructress of St. Rosseline, and mentioned in her Life. AA.SS. St. Jane<(9) of Signa, April 23, Nov. 9. + 1307 or 1348. B. Giovanna DA Signa. Secular hermit. Eepresented keeping sheep beside the Amo. She was one of a family of labourers at the village of Signa on the Amo, seven miles from Florence, towards Pisa. She is claimed by various orders, but did not belong to any. She used to keep her father's sheep and sit under a great oak. In her childhood she spread her cloak on the waters of the Anio when it was in flood, and walked over dry-shod. When she was keeping sheep with other shepherds, a frightful storm came on. She made the sign of the cross over the sheep, and not only did they sustain no damage, but not one of the men or beasts was even wet. She built herself a hermit- age in the valley of Signa. Gu6rin says she died of the plague in 1348, after performing miracles of charity to other victims. Brocchi places her death several years earlier. Her oak was held sacred, and whoever tried to cultivate the ground under it had no luck; either the oxen died, or some other mishap occurred. Once a wood-cutter, although warned, said, " Beata o wm Beata — voglio tagli' are^** and jumping into the tree with a