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ST. RECTINEA 181 place for so great a lady, and that if she were detained there, they would poll down the honse. Seeing her determina- tion was not to be moved by threats, they next resorted to tears, but to no purpose. Baingard stayed there for the remaining twenty years of her life. Snch was her desire to practise humility that she always insisted on serving the others and taking her share of all menial work. The nuns soon made her cellarer, a post which she filled with the greatest satisfaction to all. She knew each nun, her name and origin, her little ailments, her tastes and weaknesses, and remember- ing that they were highly bom and delicately brought up, she knew what they had need of, and learnt various ways of cooking to make variety for them. Needy as she found the commu- nity, she managed so well that she made everybody comfortable and always had something to give to the poor. She was Sara, Martha, Tabitha and Magdalene all in one. Meantime, her son Peter Maurice, abbot of Cluny, called Peter the Yener* able, travelled much, went to Bome, to England, and other places, and when he returned to his own country, he always went to see his mother. She gave him advice as a son, and at the same time honoured him as a father and a priest. In 1134, he attended the council of Pisa, under Innocent II., and was absent when his mother died. On his return to Cluny he had first to entertain the bishops and abbots, who had travelled with him. Afterwards, he visited the convent where his mother lay dead. He thanked the weeping sisters for their goodness to her, and made them a most touching address. She is styled Saint in the calendars of the Order of Cluny and by all the local chroniclers, but she has not been canon- ized. Her life, written by her son B. Peter, is in Amauld d'AndUly's Vies des Saints Peres. Chambard, Saints Per- Bcnnages d*Anjou, St. Rainild, Beyneld. St. Rainofle, July 14 (Bagenufla, Bainofbe,' Baynoffle, Beoinulfa, in Flemish, Benofele). 7th century. She was of high rank and related to SS. Geb- TBUDE of Nivelle and Beoga. She lived at Aioncourt in Brabant, supposed to be so called from Ayus and Aya, her father and mother. A young nobleman, named Ebroin, was accepted by her parents as her suitor, but as she was bent on devot- ing herself to religion only, she took the opportunity of her mother and all the household being intent on the prepara- tions for her marriage, and when the hour had nearly come for that ceremony, she fled with one maid, and concealed herself in the forest, where she soon died. Her parents buried her and built a church over her tomb, where miracles proved her sanctity. AA.SS, St. Rainofre, Baikoflb. St. Rals (l Bhais (1). St. Rais (2) or Baissa, Ibais. St. RaphaildiSy Cbaphaildis. St. Rasalana, M. A native of Madagascar. Probably modem. One of a group of female martyrs represented in a window of Eaton Hall, by Mr. Shields. The others in the same com- partment are SS. Pebpetua, Fblicitas and AoNES. The next compartment contains male martyrs, and includes Bishop Patteson. Atheneum, Feb. 4, 1882, p. 165, " Fine Art Gossip." St. Rasmensoidai honoured at Astere, in the diocese of Namur. Stadler. St. Rastragena, May 12, V. M. honoured at Coincy, between Bheims and Meaux, and supposed to be a con- verted barbarian in the early days of the Church, and a martyr of chastity. AA.SS.9 Appendix. St. Ratgunt, Badegund. St. Rathnata or Bathnota, Bethna. St. R^trude, Epiphania (2 T.inEthi< Mas Latrie. Gu^rin. St. Raurava. Dec. 3, M. in Ethiopia. St. Ravenosa, honoured in Sicily, Dec. 8. Mas Latrie. Gu^rin. St. Raynoffle, Bainoflb. St Rayne. (See St. White.) St. Reata, Sept. 6, V. M., came from Spain with Sanctian, Augustin, Felix and Aubert. They were all mar- tyred at Sens, where a church is built in their honour. Martin. St. Rectinea, Oct. 27, V. Irish. Mart, of Donegal. AA.SS,f Preeter.