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102 ST. NATALIA their husbands to remember them before Grod. A heavy shower of rain fell and put oat the fire ; the exocntioners seeing this, ran away and some of them fell down dead. Natalia and all the women, assisted by other Christians, collected as much of the blood of the martyrs as they conld ; took the bodies out of the furnace, and put them into a ship belonging to Byzantium. Afterwards the Christians gave largo sums tor pieces of cloth and even for scraps of the clothes of the executioners, stained with the blood of the martyrs. Natalia embalmed the hand of her husband, which had been cut off ; wrapped it in a precious purple cloth, and laid it on her pillow. Soon after she had become a widow, a tribune, a great man of the city, obtained the Em- peror's permission to marry her, and sent to ask her, for she was one of the great ladies of the place, very beautiful and very rich. Her answer to the messengers was that she accepted his offer, but must have three months to prepare for so grand a marriage. However, instead of preparing, she fled to Byzantium, carry- ing Adrian's hand with her. Her life there was spent in devotion, but her time was not long in this world, for she was wearied out with the voyage, following on all her other sufferings. Adrian called her to heaven, and she fell into a sweet sleep to awake in Paradise. B.M,j Dec. 1. Men. Bos., Aug. 2(3. AA.SS., " St. Adrian," Aug. 26. Butler. Baillet. March 4 and Sept. 8, are anniversaries of translations of St Adrian's relics. St. Natalia (2) or Nathalia, July 10, honoured at Grandmont in the diocese of Limoges, and supposed to be a companion of St. Ursula. The Bol- landists think she is Anatolia (S). AA,SS,, Juno 9. St. Natalia (3), Noele, Sabitha, or Sabigotho, July 27, Oct. 20, M. about 852. Wife of Aurelius, who was the son of a Moor of Cordova in Spain, by a Christian slave ; he adopted his mother's faith and chose Natalia for his wife on account of her virtue and piety. Both husband and wife, duriug the persecu- tion under Abder Rahman III., prepared for martyrdom by constant self-denial. St. George (the deacon was their friend and fellow-martyr. At the same time St. Felix, his wife Liliosa, and several other Christians were put to death. Aurelius and Natalia left two little daughters. St. Eulogins, who was pre- sent at the execution and to whom we owe the history of the persecution, un- dertook the care of these orphans. The youngest, who was only five years old, begged him to write the history of her father and mother, and describe their martyrdom ; so he said, " What will you give me if I do that for you ? " " Para- dise," answered the child, ** which I will ask of God for you." B.M., July 27. Eulogius, MemoHale Sanctorum. Baillet. St. Navida, May 7, M. in Africa. AA,SS. St. Navig^a. Honoured at Saint- Etienne d'Auxerre. Guerin. St. Neducia, or Keducta, June 2. One of two hundred and twenty-seven Boman martyrs commemorated together in the Martyr ology of St, Jerome. A A . SS, St. Nefydd. Daughter of Brychan and wife of St. Tudwal Befr. SS. Cynin and Kor were her sons. Nefydd was founder of Llannefydd in Denbighshire. She is sometimes confounded with her nephew of the same name, and is perhaps also identical with St. Golendydd. Bets. (See Almheda.) St. Nefyn was one of the alleged daughters of Brychan, but more probably she was his granddaughter. She mar- ried Cynfarch Oer, and is perhaps the founder and patron of Nefyn in Carnar- vonshire ; but this is uncertain, as is her right to the title of Saint. Bees. {S^e Almheda.) St. Neg'a. This saint is not found in the calendar. The name comes from negare, to deny. To vow one's self to St. Nega is to determine to deny every- thing, through thick and thin. Prosper Merimee, Cohmba, p. 194. At p. 92 he says, '* St. Nega is there to pull him through." St. Nemata or Nemeta, Nonna, mother of St. David. St. N6moie, Neomadia. St. Nennoc, Nenok, or Nenooe, NiNNOC. St. Neomadia, Jan. 14 (Leomaie, Ijoumaze, Memoe, Memois, Neovais,