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ST. ROMANA 103 went to them in the middle of the night and told them to get np and baptize her. They said they could not well do it there, bnt they were on their way to Gabatum (now Levronz), where she could be baptized. One day when they were preaching there, Bodena came and was baptized, and iAimediately began preach- ing with them. A short time afterwards, Corusculus discovered where she was, and came with forty-four soldiers to bring her back. When she heard it she took out her scissors and out off her nose, lips and ears, and thus adorned, went to meet her fiance, Silvanus in presence of Corusculus, put on the nose and lips, and left no scar or wound. Corusculus was not converted, but he and his men mounted their horses and went away. When they had gone about a mile, their horses began to sink into the ground although it was quite dry. The men themselves lost the use of their feet ; so they turned back, and crawling on their elbows and knees, humbly begged for baptism and forgive- ness. A great many people were con- verted by this miracle. Silvanus and Silvester built a church in honour of Gx)d and St. Peter, and there they wrought wonderfal cures and taught the people. At last Silvanus found he was dying. Silvester and Bodena lamented and begged him not to leave them. He answered, **Do not mourn; you will not long be left without me." Two hours after his death they also died. AA.8S. St. Rodesia, Bodafia. St. Rodilia, June 2. One of two hundred and twenty-seven Boman martyrs, commemorated together in the Martyrology of St. Jerome. AA.SS, St. Rodinia, Bodafia. St. Rodofia, Bodolia, Bodopia, or BoDosiA, Bodafia. ' St. Rodrue, Botrude. St. Rogata (l), June 2. One of the Martyrs of Lyons who, being a Boman citizen, was beheaded instead of being thrown to the wild beasts of the amphi- theatre. {See Blandina.) AA.SS. SS. Rogata. Eleven MM. in sun- dry places are remembered on different days. VOL. n. St. Rogatiana (l), March 1, M. at Nicomedia, with many others. AA.SS. (See Antiga.) St. Rogatiana (2), June 1, M. with St. Aucega. St. Rogatilla, Feb. 24, M. with a great number of Christians at Nicomedia, in Bithynia. AA.SS. St. Rogatina, May 10, M. at Tarsus, in Cilicia. AA.SS. St. Roisia, Botes. St. Rolendis, Bollande, Bolleinde or DoLENDis, May 13, V. 7th or 8th cen- tury. Patron against colic and gravel. Daughter of Desiderius, a king or chief of the Gauls, supposed by some writers to be a king of the Lombards defeated and deposed by Charlemagne. An illus- trious warrior, son of a king of the Scots, having heard of the beauty, wisdom and piety of this princess, sent to offer himself to Desiderius as a son- in-law. Desiderius was willing to accept the alliance, but Bolendis preferred to join herself to the eleven thousand Virgins of Cologne, to whom she had a special devotion, and set out on a pil- grimage to the place of their martyrdom, poorly dressed and accompanied only by three maids and two men-servants. They tried to persuade her to rest at Gerpina, near Namur, on her way, but such was her anxiety to arrive at Cologne that she pursued her journey too hurriedly, fell ill by the way, and died at a place called Yilliers La Potterie, after eight days' illness, in the house of a peasant who received the pilgrims hospitably. An- other tradition says she was taken ill at Yilliers and lodged there with a peasant, but that she went on and died at Gor- pina, a village on a stream flowing into the Sambre. Others say she died at Fosse. She is specially honoured at Gerpina, which clums to be her burial place, and where her sanctity was at- tested by many miracles. AA.SS. St. RoUande or RoUeinde, Bo- lendis. St. Romana (l) or Bomaine, March 13, Y. Martin. St. Romana (2), May 19, M. in Africa. AA.SS. St Romana (3), April 6, M. at Nicomedia, in Bithynia. AA.SS. o