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ST. MANNEA St Mammea ^i), Mamy. St Mammea (2), Mannea. St Mammelthe, Mamelta. St. Mammita, Ang. 17, M. with Disca at Alexandria. Commemorated with a man named Mammes. AA,SS. St. Mamurra, Feb. 28, M. Gn^rin. Mas Latrie. St Mamy or Mammea, Feb. 11. Queen. M. 3rd century. Mother of the Emperor Alexander Severus, 222-235. Converted by Origen. Put to death by her son. (Mart Salisbury) Bede, Six Ages of the Worlds says it was Maximin, successor of Severus, who put Mammea and many other Christians to death. St Mamyque or Mamyca, March 26, M. Guerin. St. Manaris or Manaridis. 5th century. A deaconess at Gaza in the time of St Porphyry. (See Salaphtha.) Gu6rin calls her Saint," but gives her no day. St Manatho, Ennatha. B. Mancia or Mencia Pereira, Aug. 12. Widow. Nun O.S.D. in Por- tugal. Mentioned in Anno Dominicano OallieOy Viridario Oermanico, and Anno Sancto Belgico. AA,SS. Prmier. St Mancina, Jan. 13. Either Mancinach, mentioned among the vir- gins and widows in the Dunkeld Litany, or Mansenna, in the Martyrohgy of Donegal ; or, more likely, Mainchin, an Irislmian of the Gth or 7th century; O'Hanlon makes him a contemporary and servant of St. Patrick. Forbes. St Mancinach. {See Mancina.) St Mane. {See Nune.) St. Manechild, Men^hould. Baillet. St Manegild or Manehild, M^n^ HOULD. St Manehould, Mj^ehould. St Manintia or Mabninta, Feb. 28, M. with many others. AA.SS. St Manna { Mannia, or Magnus, Feb. 4, M. at Forum Sempronium — either Fossombrone in IJrbino or a forum in Home. Mentioned in several old calendars. AA^S, St Manna (2) or Menna of Fonte- net, Oct. 3, 4th century. Daughter of Sigmar and Liutrude and sister of SS. Eucharius, Eliphus, Gertrude (1), LiBABiA, Oda, and Susanna (14). Bigmar and Liutrude sent Manna at an early age to be baptized and taught by the bishop of Ch&lons. After a few years they recalled her to be married to a young nobleman. She said she would have no husband who was a sinner and mortal. As they insisted, she fled to the bishop, taking with her a veil with which she bogged him to consecrate her. Fearing the anger of her parents, he hesitated, but whHe he doubted, an angel appeared and placed the veil on her head. Her parents were satisfied and soon afterwards died, leaving great pos- sessions to be divided among their chil- dren. The persecution under Julian the Apostate obliged them to disperse. Manna fled, attended by one maid. They came in their flight to a river, where there was a frightful abyss, dangerous even for boats and impassable for pedes- trians. Manna prayed and immediately the gulf was filled with sand and the two women passed over dry-shod. The place was called ever after Le Que de Ste. Manne. When she had got safely across, she stuck her staff into the earth and a fountain spouted out from the spot. She built herself a hermitage at Fontenet and passed the rest of her days there. Her relics were placed in the church at Portsas near Mirecour, where a great house of canonesses was founded by St. Bruno, afterwards Leo IX. ; it was destroyed in the French Revolution. Manna was particularly honoured in the Yosges. Martin takes the story from Jean Rhuyr, AntiquiiSs des Vosges, AA,SS. says she is perhaps the same as Ama (4), one of seven sisters. The stories and the names in these groups of sister saints are somewhat confounded. St. Mannea or Mammea, Ang. 27, M. c. 303. Wife of St. Marcellinus, a tribune. Mother of John, Serapion, and Peter, all martyred at Tomis in Pontus ; or, according to their Acts given from an old MS. by Seller the BoUandist, at Oxyryncha in Egypt : the names of the sons are also 4ifforent in this account. Many other martyrs suffered at the same time and are commemorated with them ; one of these was named Susanna. They were condemned to be torn by wild beasts, but the beasts lay down meekly