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104 ST. ROMANA St. Romana (4), April 6, M. at Sirmiam, in PanDonia. AA,SS. St. Romana (5), June 1, M. with St. Aucbga. SS. Romana (6) and Varula, Nov. 18, MM. 291, at Antioch, under Dio- cletian. Adam King. St. Romana (7) of Beauvais, Oct. 3, Y. M. in the time of Diocletian. One of twelve holy virgins who left Bome to teach Christianity in Qaul. Two of them, SS. Benbdicta (7) and Lbobebia went to Laon, in the diocese of Soissons, and Bomana went to Beauvais, where her piety pointed her out to the persecutors of the faith and she was martyred with a sword. AA,SS, from an anonymous MS. found in the Abbey of St. Quentin at Beauvais. Baillet supposes her to be either a duplicate of St. Benedicta of Origny or a companion — ^real or imag- inary — of her mission and martyrdom. He thinks both stories are borrowed from that of St. Satuenina. St. Romana (8) or Calpubnia (2) of Todi, Feb. 23, V., + c. 324. As a child she was instructed in the Christian faith unknown to her parents. She went to Mount Spracte to look for the Pope and was baptized by him. She then lived alone in a cave, where two priests found her and saw a white dove flying round her head while she prayed. She died at the age of eleven or twelve. Just before her death, her parents discovered the place of her retreat, and on hearing her story, they were converted. In 1301, she was trandated into the church of St. Fortunatus, where she lies in a marble tomb. B.M. AA.SS, St Romana (O), an abbess or deaconness in Antiocn, deputed by St. NonnuB, bishop, to instruct St. Fblaoia (9) in the Christian religion, on her forsaking her sins. Letjende Doree. SS.Romula,KBDEMPTAand Hirundo or Hekundijnes, VV., July 23. 6th cen- tury. At the time when St. Gregory the Great retired from the world and became a monk, there was at Bome a very old woman named Ebdempta, who lived as a recluse in a hermitage built against the church of the Blessed Virgin, believed to be that of Santa Maria Maggiore. She wore the religious habit and practised the piety in whioh slie had been educated by another holy Tirgin named Hirundo, who had led a Bolitazy life on the mountains near Palesfcrina. Bedempta took two companions to share her retreat and her prayers ; one of them was BoMULA ; St. Gregory did not know the name of the other, ahhough he had often seen her and she was still ali?e when he wrote. Bomula attained to greater perfection than her friends, bat it pleased G^ to afflict her with paraly- sis. Once in the middle of the night she called Bedempta and her other companion. When they went to her they found her room filled with a bright light and a sweet odour, and they heard a noise as of a number of people going into the room. Bomula reassured Be- dempta, who was frightened, and told her she was not going to die yet. The fourth night after this, she called them again and begged them to procure for her the holy viaticum. Immediately afterwards, she died, and they heard the heavenly olioirs singing to welcome her to heaven. AA,SS, and Baillet, from St. Gregory the Great. St Rosalie of Palermo, Sept 4, July 15 (BosoLEE, Bosolink), + c. 1160. Patron of Nice, Palermo, Sicily, and against pestilence. Bepresented in a cave conversing with angels and expelling devils ; cutting an inscription on a rock; presenting roses to an angel ; receiving roses from angels; conducted by angels from one retreat to another ; praying in a cave ; carrying a branch bearing roses; crowned by the Infant Christ; crowned with reses; carrying a double cross. . She was descended from Charlemagne, and was the daughter of Sinibaldo, lord of Quisquina, and Bosas, who belonged to a branch of the ancient and powerful family of the Counts of Marsi. On her mother's side, Bosalie was related to Boger, king of Sicily, and was for some time in attendance on his queen, Mar- garet of Navarre. At the Court of Palermo, Bosalie was disgusted with the pomps and vanity and the wickedness and worldliness which surrounded her. The king and queen disapproved of her silence and love of retirement. She