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ST. RAHAB 179 Wediound, Weiboonde), v. + 1152. Tbe last nnn of the Premonstratensian conyent of St Paul near Villa Mayor, seyen miles from Burgos in Spain. The conyent fell to rain and the ohorch of St. Michael of Treyirio was built close to the spot. Radegund went to Rome and on her return shut herself up in a cell adjoining that church, and liyed there in extraordinary asceticism for the rest of her days. Her body was pre- seryed with great yeneration in the church until the seyenteenth century. AA,SS. Cahier. Le Paige. St. Radeg:und (4), Radiana. St. Radeg:und (6) of Combrailles, honoured at Libersac. Guerin. Mas Latrie. St Radgund, Radegund. St. Radiana or Radegund (4), Aug. 13, V. of Wellenburg. 14th or end of 13th century. Patron of Salzburg and against wolyes, and inyoked to grant plenty of milk and butter. In an old print, in Imagines Sanctorum Augustinorumy she is being deyoured by wild beasts in a forest ; at her feet lies a comb, brush, basin and jug upset. In another part of the picture, she appears inside an open door, a man kneeling at her feet, she seems to be blessing him or brushing his hair. She was bom at Wolfratshausen. She became a seryant in the castle of Wellen- burg. Wellenburg belonged to a patri- cian of Augsburg, named Portner, who is said to haye bought it in 1329. Radiana was yery industrious and faith- ful. When her daily work was done, her foyourite recreation was to wait upon the poor and sick of the neighbourhood and giye them the food she denied her- self fbr their sake. With especial de- yotion did she tend the lepers in the neighbouring lazaret. Once her master suspected she was carrying out of his house something he did not approye of. He looked into her apron and saw nothing but combs, soap and linen with which she was going to dress her lepera On her usual charitable expedition, she was attacked by wolyes and so badly torn and bitten that she died in three days. Her master wished to bury her in his family yault in Augsburg, but the cart which was carrying her body, stood miraculously still and became inmioy- able. So a pair of oxen were harnessed to the cart, and left them to draw it whither they would. They went straight to her beloyed leper-house, and there she was buried, and a chapel was built near and called by her name. She has been a yery popular saint in that district for centuries and her comb and slipperfa are kept with great reyerence in the chapel of Wellenburg castle. Stadler giyes a long account of her worship and of the peculiar honours paid her by the famous wealthy family of Fugger, who became the owners of Wellenburg in 1597. She has no day, but Cuper, the Bollandist, giyes her story, Aug. 13, that being the festiyal of the fmore famous St. Radegund, queen of France. AA,S8, Stadler, Lexikon. St. Radreime, Radegund. St. Rafica, Sept. 4, M. in Ethiopia, with her fiye sons. AA.SS. Stadler. St. Ragengardis, Raingabd. St. Ragenufla, Rainoflb. St. Raginfledis, Rainfbede. St. Ragpinfredis, Rainfbede. St. Ragnild (l), Retneld. St. Ragnild (2) or Ragnhild, July 28, + 1120. Wife of Ingo, king of Sweden, 111 8-1 129. Johannes Magnus, Hist Goty places Ingo's accession in 1086, and says that there was great peace in his time, at home and abroad. Ragnild was yery deyout and ascetic from her infancy, and as queen she was the mother of the poor and of the seryants of God. She was buried at Telga, where miracles rewarded the yeneration paid to her. The informa- tion regarding her is yery scanty. She was perhaps the mother or grandmother of Christina (8) wife of St. Eric, king of Sweden. Vastoyius St. Ragonde, Radegund. St. Ragunt, Radegund. St. Rahab, Raghab or Raabe, Sept. 1, called in the Bible "the harlot," was an innkeeper, perhaps also a trader and dyer of Jericho. She had heard, pro- bably from other traders and trayellers, how *' the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea " for the children of Israel, and the other wonderful eyents of their