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ST. LENE 457 St. Lauda, LAUTicA,or Leutica, May 31, M. at Gerona in Spain. AAJSS, St Laudasia, July 26, M. AA,SS. St. Laudoveva, Oct. 29 (Lando- VKNNA, Laudovena, LoutvK). 0nc6 worshipped at Sen lis, where her relics were kept in a chapel, founded in the 11th century in honour of St. Frambald. She is called Ste. Lou^ye in a MS. in Gk)thic characters which belonged to that church. She is said to have been a queen of the Franks or Bretons, and sometimes supposed to be the wife of Ensebins, a king of the Yeneti in Armorica. AA,S8, St. Laura, Laurence, Laurentia, LoRENZA, Oct. 19, M. 864. She belonged to a noble Mozarabic family of Cordova. After six years of married life she was left a widow with two daughters. She became a nun under Aukea at Cuteclara, and succeeded her as abbess in 856. After some years of great holiness, she was seized by the Saracens, beaten and put into a bath of boiling pitch in which she liyed three hours and then gave up her spirit. AA,SS. Eulogius. St. Laurence, Laurentia, Lorenza, sometimes Laura. St. Laurentia (1). (See Palatias.) St Laurentia (2), March 13, Sept. 8, V. M. (See Heremita.) SS. Lauriana and Agrippina, VV. MM., May 21 or 24 at Corbie, May 1 at Amiens. Their relics were taken from Bome to Corbie. Migne. Guerin. St. Laurina, Not. 3, M., honoured at Ajaccio. Ga6rin. St. Lauta, June 1, M. with St. AUCEGA. St. Lautia, Lauoe. AA.SS. St. Lautica, Lauda. St. Lea (1) or Leva, Sept. 28, M in Africa. AA.SS, St. Lea> (2), March 22, + c. 383. A Boman lady of rank who, after her husband's death, renounced the world and led a religious and penitential life with some other pious women, to whom she was spiritual mother. She died at the same time as Consul Prsetextatus, who was a heathen, and whose life had been as full of luxury and splendour as hers was full of mortification. Her con- temporary, St. Jerome, in a letter to Maroella, makes an edifying comparison between the death of the consul and that of the Christian widow. She was not worshipped as a saint in the early Church, and her name was only inserted in the martyrologies in the 16th century. R,M, St. Jerome, Ep. 23 (Migne). Baillet Butler. St. Leah or Lia, sister of Rachel (1). St. Leandra, Sept. 17, V. Perhaps same as Landrada. AA^SS.^ Prmter. St. Lechida, Dec. 2, V. Patron of Llanllechidin Caernarvonshire. Menun-ial of Ancieni British Piety, St. Leda, Lydia (2). St. Legadia. (See Leocadia.) St. Legissima, LiETissraA. St. Leian, Lleian. B. Lena dall Oglio, Helen (19). St. Lfene (l),NATALfeNE or Nataline, Not. 12, V. M. 4th century. Patron of Pamiers, d6p. Ari^ge. Ninth daughter of Fr6d61as, goTemor of the town after- wards called Pamiers. He was so anxious for a son that, on the appearance of the ninth daughter, he went into a fury, and ordered her to be thrown into the Ari^ge, but three luminous crosses appeared over her cradle, and while the servants wore preparing to execute the orders of Fredelas, a man (whom an ancient tradition calls St. Martin) appeared, took the child and gave her to a nurse who brought her up a Christian. L^ne early consecrated by a vow of virginity, associated herself to other holy virgins. She devoted herself particularly to the poor and sick in the hospital of the town. Here she was seen several times by Alydanus, a lieu- tenant-general of Fredelas, who tried to seduce her, but she frustrated all his plans and attempts. He denounced her to the governor as a zealous Christian. She was immediately thrown into a dungeon, and then dragged through the streets before being led to the tribunal of Fredelas. He asked her, " Who are you and of what family ? " "I am your daughter," said L^ne, and she told him all her life. "My daughter!" he ex- claimed, " are you indeed ? I will acknowledge you as such on one con- dition — that you renounce your religion."