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B. AMATA 49 St. Ama (2), June G, V. M. in Persia. St. Ama (3), Talida. St. Ama (4), Sept. 24 (Amata, Ame, Amee, Emma, Imma, Ymma). Gth century. Honoured at Joinville. Eldest of seven sisters. (5ee Hoylda.) The name Imma, or Ame, is common in Champagne, and St. Ama is the patron of those so named. BaiUet, Vies. Perier. AA.SS. St. Amabilia (l), July ll, V. Her bones and picture were preserved in the convent of St. Amand, at Houen. iSupppscd to be daughter of a king of England. AA.SS, Appendix. B. Amabilia (2), abbess. 12th century. One of the native patron saints of Bohemia, and patron especially of the family of Swihowski or Schu- rhowski. Daughter of Wladislaus I., duke of Bohemia. Sister of Wladislaus II., a religious man and happy in having pious children ; ho built the noble monastery of Srapow on Mount Zion. He went to Jerusalem in the crusade %nth the Emperor Conrad III., in 1 147. Later, when he had done good service to the Emperor in his wars against the Milanese, in Italy, Conrad gave him, for his ensign, a white lion with two tails. Amabilia had another brother, Theobald, and a sister, B. Euzabetii, prioress of Duxovia. Ama- bilia stayed with Theobald and lived on his estate. At Clatow, which seems to have been his property, she built a monastery, dedicated in the name of St. Lawrence, for Benedictine nuns, and was their first abbess. She wrought miracles during her life, and is buried in her own monastery, which, however, was after- wards given to Dominican monks. The family of Swihowski, or Schurhowski, trace their descent to Theobald, and worship Amabilia with particular de- votion as their patron saint. Chanowski, Veiftifjia Bohemiee Pise, Palacky, Oe- ichichte von Bohmen, St. Amabilis, July 20, M. in Africa. AAJSS, B. Amadea, March G, Oct. 28 (Ama- PEUM, Amedea). O.S.B. 12th century. Called the " Blessed Nun of Savoy." At the time that St Amadous was bishop of Lausanne, his sister was a Benedictine nun in Savoy. He wrote eight homilies for her, which, according to Burgener, were so highly esteemed as to rank among the writings of the Fathers of the Church. Amadeus and Amadea were the children of Amadeus, count of Haute- rive, and Petronilla his wife, daughter of Guide VIL, de Chuignos, duke of Vienne, in Dauphiny. Amadea was already a nun when her mother died in 1119. Her father and a little brother went into the Cistercian monastery of Bonneveaux. Instigated by the Virgin Mary, Amadea begged her brother, the bishop, to give her the homilies he had written. He agreed, on condition that she should give him something. According to Bucelinus, the B. V. Mary provided her with a woollen chyroiheca^ or, as Burgener relates, a linen cover. It is impossible for us to ascertain of what material this article was made; for, although it was preserved for four centuries in the treasury of the cathedral of Savoy, it was lost or destroyed when that church was plundered in 1536. Burgener, Helvetia Sancta. Bucelinus, Men. Bai.y who quotes a Life of St, Amadeus by Eichard Gibbon. St. Amalberga (1), Amelberga. St. Amalberga (2), widow. Abbess of the convent of Lobbo, in 1408. In a collection of Images des saints^ repre- sented holding her pastoral staff and a knife. Erroneously confounded with the St. Amelbkrga who lived in the. 8th century. Guenebault, Diet, Icon. St. Amaranta, or Amarantus, Oct. 28, M. at Carthage. Early in the 4th century. AA.SS. St. Amarma, July 8, wife of a king of the Goths. M. with St. Celian the Scot, and his brothers, SS. Aedh and Tadg. They were killed by the governor of the royal house, in the hippodrome of the king's palace. This was not later than the end of the 0th century, the latest entry in the Martyrolotjy of Tallagh being, according to Colgan, 800. Kelly, Mart of Tallagh. St. Amata (l), Talida. B. Amata (2), or Aimee, June 10. 123G. O.S.D. In 121 7, when St. Dominic was preaching to the nuns of San Sisto, at Home, the first convent of his order,