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ST. SENORINA 219 dazzling light shone from her body, so that the cxocntioners could not fix their eyes upon her. In the midst of their impions omelty, a great peal of thnnder was heard, and the angels came and took her souL B.M, AA.SS. St. Secundina (3), May 8, M. at Constantinople, with St. Acacius. AAJ3S, (See Agatha (2).) St. Secundola (i), Secundilla. St. Secundola (2), Aug. 1, M. at Eome. AA.SS. St Secundula (i), Feb. 2, M. at Eome, with many others. AA,SS, St. Secundula (2) M. with Antiga. St Secundula (3), Sept. 28, M. in Africa. AA.SS. St. Secura, Sacusa. St. Securis, Feb. 24, M. with about a hundred and sixty others, at Nicomedia in Bithynia. AA.SS, St. Secusa, Sacusa. St. Sedepha or Sedopha, Sodkpha. St. Sedrido, Saethrith or Sbthryth, Jan. 10. 7th century. Second abbess of Brie (afterwards called Faremoutier). Daughter of St. Hereswitha by her first marriage. Sedrido left England and became a nun at Brie, under its first abbess St. Fara, whom she succeeded. AA.SS. Brit. Sancta. Butler, St. Fara," Dec. 7. (See St. Ercongota and St. Ethelburga (3).) St. Segeberg, Gegoberga. St. Seg^netia, Sbgrbtia. St. Segnich, V., abbess of Kill Ailbe. Possibly same as Sincha. Lanigan. St. Segoberg, Gegoberga. St. Segolena, Sigolena. St. Segrauz, Sigrada. St. Segrete, Sigrada. St. Senve, Seuve. St. Segjetia or Segnetia, Dec. 18, V. said to have been sister of St. Gerald, and an abbess in Ireland. She died of jaundice, with a hundred of her nuns, when that pestilence ravaged Ireland in 064. Lanigan. St. Sellaris, Feb. 24, M. with many others at Nicomedia in Bithynia. AA.SS. St. Sellenais, Jnne 5 or 8, M. in Egypt, under Galerius Maximianus. Stadler und Heim. St Semibaria, Oct. 22, V. M., companion of St. Ursula. Specially honoured at St.. Denis. The body was probably brought there from Cologne and named afterwards. Martin. Gyne- cwum. B. Semina, Jan. 25, a Carthusian Y. AA.SS.y Preeter. St. Sempronia or Semproniana. (See Juliana (15).) St. Sena, Feb. 9 in the calendar of the monastery of St. Cyriacus at Bome, is probably St. Xena or Eusebia (4) or else St. Serena (4). AA.SS. St. Senarde. A chapel is dedicated in her name at St. Gilles do Soulans, in the diocese of Lu9on. Chastelain. St. Senentia, V. Invoked in a litany used in England in the 7 th cen- tury. Migne, PatrologicB Curms Com- pletuSy vol. 72. Mabillon, Analecta Vetera. English Mart. 1761. St Senorina, April 22, V. 924-982. Abbess of the convent of St. John of Yieira at Basto, in Entre Minho y Douro, Portugal. Patron of Vieira. Repre- sented with a large jar of water ; some- times with a frog beside her. Senorina is said to have been of the noble family of Sousa. She was the daughter of Hufes or Adolphus, count of Belfajal and lord of the territories of Vieira and Basto. She lost her mother while still an infant, and was brought up by her aunt B. GoDiNA, whom she eventually succeeded as abbess of the Benedictine convent of St. John of Yieira. Her father built her a new monastery at Basto. St. Eodesind (March 1) was her dear friend and near relation; one day when he paid her a visit at her convent, two workmen, who were mend- ing the roof, were so wicked as to mis- construe the friendship of the two saints : hardly had this impious thought arisen in their minds when they both fell from the roof and were killed on the spot: the holy abbess and bishop then raised them to life. Once Senorina sent a servant to bring water from a fountain ; when she put it to her lips, it was wine. Thinking it was a trick, she sent for another jug of water, and this time sent another woman to watch the first one. The same thing happened, and then she knew it was a miracle, and assembled her household to share this divine gift