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ST. ORICULA 123 mother of St. Patrick. Blnndell, Hiat. of the Isle of Man. St. Oncommena, or Ontgommena, WiLGEFOBTIS. St. Oneglia, Anqelia. St. Onenne, Ouenne. St. Onesima, Feb. 27, V.of Cologne. History and date unknown. AA.SS, Gaerin. St. Onesta, Honbsta (2). St. Onofledis or Onoflette, Anno- FLKDIS. B. Onofria, Honofbia. St. Ontcommera, Wilgefortih. St. Onzinia, or Onzimia. Perhaps Enymie. Cahier. Gu6rin. St Ophenge, Euphemia (l). St. Opportuna, April 22, patron of Paris and Almen^ches. Bepresented (1) appearing to a drown- ing man whom she saves ; (2) an angel standing beside her, in allusion to a tradition that when she entered the conyent for the first time, the other nuns saw her guardian angel walking beside her. St. Opportuna, abbess of Montreuil, near Almendches, was neyer known to be angry, and corrected the faults of her nuns with words instead of blows. Her brother, St. Chrodegand or Godegrand, bishop of S6ez, went to Bomo and Pales- tine for seven years, entrusting his diocese and property meanwhile to his kinsman Chrodobert, who enriched him- self at the expense of the people and their absent pastor. Opportuna prayed fer- vently for her brother's return. As soon as he arrived in his native land, Chrode- gand hastened to visit Opportuna, and was proceeding from Montreuil to Alme- n^ches, where their aunt St. Lantildis was abbess, when he was murdered half- way between the two monasteries, at the instigation of his rival. Lantildis prayed that she might succeed in burying the saint in her own church; Opportuna when she heard of the murder, prayed that the body might remain where it was until she came to take it. The murdered saint proved immovable until Opportuna arrived, when he at once allowed her to carry him with her own hands to her church, and bury him. She survived him one year, and died about a.d. 77(». Her Life^ written in the following century by St. Aldhelm, is given by Mabillion,^i4.S5. 0.5.5. She is praised in the Acts of St. Chrodegand^ Sept. 3. AA.SS. Butler. Baillet. Cahier. St. Optata, June 1, M. with St. AUCEGA. St. Orada, Odbada. B. Oranna, Sep. 15 (Okana, Obanda, Ubanna, Ubbanna), V. c. 1400, at Saar Louis in Lorraine. Invoked against deafness and vertigo. Her maid-servant is honoured with her. Their history is unknown, but their local worship is very ancient. Legend says that Oranna was deaf and was despised on that account, by her brothers. Her father gave her an estate at Eschweiler, where, with a faithful maid, she devoted herself to the service of Grod. Another legend is that she fled with her maid to lead a hermit's life, and they hid themselves at Esch, now Saar Louis. AA.SS. St. Orbana or Obbanna. Five martyrs bore this name ; some of them are also called Ubbana. AA.SS. Migne. St Orbata, Feb. 12, M. in Italy, with others. Mentioned in St. Jerome's Martyrohgy. AA.SS. St. Orbilia, Okbilla, or Sbbvilia, 7th century. Appointed by St. Modwenna to succeed her in the government of her nuns at Fochard, in Ireland, when she left them to found other religious com- munities. Lanigan. Perhaps this is the saint whom Dempster called Obbilla, Jan. 2, 700. He makes her a native of Scotland and kinswoman of St. Abel, archbishop of Rheims, who summoned her from her own country to preside over a community of nuns at Bheims. St. Oreozela, July 20, M. probably at Constantinople. Honoured in the Gretjk Church. AA.SS. St. Org^onne sometimes means Alde- GUND, sometimes Badeound. Cahier. B. Oria, AuKiA. St. Oricula, Nov. 18 (Oricola, Orique), M. c. 408, with her brother St. Oriculus or Orioles, and her sister St. Basilica or Basiltssa. They were all slain by the Vandals at Syndunum (now Senuc), a village of Doulcon in Cham- pagne. According to Arturus a Monas- tero, their bodies arose miraculously