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280 B, SOPHIA ■be gave wine to the poor and needy. One day, when many of them wanted wine from her and she had but one bottle, the more she gave the more the wine increased, the bottle remaining always full. She died a nun at the age of fifty- four. AA.SS. B. Sophia (15), April 30, died in the odour of sanctity sifter the middle of the 12th century. She was a nun under St. Matilda (5), in the monastery of Span- heim. AA.SS.f Prseter. B. Sophia (16), Sepi 10, abbess. 13th century. According to Bucelinus, she took the veil at Ditkirgen, and after- wards embraced the Cistercian reform. She was prioress of St. Walburg's Mount, and when a colony of nuns from there removed to the new abbey of Hoven in the diocese of Cologne, about 1208, she was their first superior. Migne, Die. des Ahhayes. Bucelinus. Henriquez, Lilia Cistercii, St. Sophia (17) and her sister St. Elizabeth, 13th century, were daughters of the Count of Mansfeld, and nuns under St. Gertrude, in the famous community of learned, accomplished, imaginative and saintly women in the Cistercian monastery of Helfta in Thuringia. They enriched the convent with their works, Sophia by transcribing, Elizabeth by painting. Fortnightly Review^ November, 1886, " The Convent of Helfta," A. Mary F. Robinson, The End of the Middle Ages. B. Sophia (IB) Lubomirska, 16th century. A Polish lady of high rank, who became a nun and attained such sanctity, that on her death-bed people touched her garments to be healed of every sort of sickness and disease. She was honoured as a saint, and a fresco of her, with a halo round her head, was to be seen in the castle of her family at Janow, not far from Warsaw, in the middle of the eighteenth century. Journal of Countess Frances KramnsJca, Sophronia (1)» a Christian woman, wife of the prefect of Eome. When she heard that the slaves of the pleasures of the tyrant Maxentius were coming to fetch her and that her husband had abandoned her to them, she begged to have a few minutes to dress, and retiring to her room, said a short prayer ami plunged a dagger into her heart. Tbe Church has not seated her among the martyrs. Lebeau. St. Sophronia (2) of Tarentmn, V. Eecluse. Towards the end of the 4th century. Bepresented ( 1 ) engraving her name on a tree; (2) after her death, surrounded by a cloud of little birds bringing twigs and flowers to cover her body. St. Jerome cites her as an ex- ample of a life passed in solitude and prayer. Lenormant, La Orande-Grtct, Cahier. St. Sosipatra or Sopatra. {Sn EUSTOLIA.) St. Soteris (1) or SoTER, May 12, V. M. probably at Eome, with more than five hundred others. AA.SS, St. Soteris (2) or Sura, Feb. 10, V. M. probably at Home, 304. (Canisioi and others place her martyrdom in the East some years earlier.) She was a Eoman maiden of noble birth, related to St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan. She took no care of her beauty and despised orna- ments. When brought lifefore the rulers and accused as a Christian, she was ordered to be struck in the face, that insult being supposed to affect a lady of her rank more than the fear of pain. As she bore this treatment bravely, she was otherwise tortured and finally beheaded. Soteris, Paulina, Memmia (4), Jituana (6), QuiRiLLA, Theopistis, Sophia, W. MM. and B. Quiriac a, widow, with many others whose names are known only to God, were placed under the altar of the church of SS. Sylvester and Martin, in the second region of Monti, near the baths of Trajan on the Esquiline. Soteris is supposed to have been previously buried in the cemetery on the Via Appia, after- wards called by her name. B,M. AA^S. Baillct Butler. St. Soteris (3), Sura, Zurk or ZuwARDA, queen, honoured at Dordrecht in Holland, until the Beformation, when her relics were removed to Soissons. It is uncertain whether this was an er- roneous commemoration of the Roman martyr Soteris (2),or a queen of the same name. French Mart. Compare Zuwarda. St. Speciosa (l), Oct. 24, March l:), V. M. (See Heremita.}