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ST. TOSA 271 and Etneswide. She was taken np from her grave at her own place at the same time that they were removed from theirs, and all three were " offered to St Peter/' at Peterborough, in one day. Tibba is called by Camden, '^ a saint of inferior order." Bede. Ferrarius. Eckenstein. St. Ticiawa, mentioned in a litany nsed in England in the 7th century. Mabillon, Vetera Ancdecta. Migne, Po" trologie. English Mart. 1761. St. Tigridia (l), Tiobida, or Tigris. (^See Darerca (l).) St. Tigridia (2), Nov. 22, first abbess of Ona. 1 1 th oentiiry. She was younger daughter of Don Sancho, count of Castile, a valiant Christian knight, and Dona Urraca, his wife. Tigridia wished to be a nun. Her brother Garcia was killed in trying to get for himself the kingdom of Leon. Her sister Nuna married tiie king of Navarre and Aragon and became heir to the county of Castile on the death of her brother. In 1002 her parents bought an estate and built a monastery near Frias for Tigridia and for the good of their own souls. After nine years, when it was finished, they sent for Don Sancho's sister Onega or Iniga — a nun of great piety and wisdom at Cillaperlata — to rule the house until Tigridia was old enough to be its abbess. They offered the monastery and its dependencies to the Saviour, the Virgin Mary, St. Michael and other saints ; they also offered their daughter Tigridia to be over the monks and nuns, and their own bodies to be buried in the precincts. She is called Saint by Tamayo, Yepez and Marieta ; Florez says she was evidently accounted as such, for she was buried in the church, while even kings who desired to be laid in that convent were placed in the cloisters. Her parents were buriod there, and her brother's body was removed there by order of his brother-in-law. Florez, Espana Sagrada, St. Tigjis, TiGRiDA or Tigridia (1). (^See Darerca (1).) St. Tilba, Tibba. St. Timia, April 27, M. at Antioch. AA.SS. B. Timo, deaconess. Ist or 2nd cen- tury. Wife of B. Themistagoras. He is mentioned in the Life of St. Auzibius, Fob. 19, bishop of Solos in Cyprus. AA.S8. St. Tina, Tuja, or Tula, May 10, M. at Tarsus in Cilioia. AA,SS, St. Tinai'k, Christina (6). St. Tinnea, Dartinna. St. Tinodora, given in some Eastern Calendars for Metrodora. (See Msno- DORA.) St. Tionia, Tbonia. (See Agapk (2).) St. Titiana, July 17, M. AA.Sk St. Titonia, June 3, Boman martyr. AA.SS. St. Tochumra or Tocumra, June 11, y. Two Irish saints bore this name ; one is patron of the parish of Tochum- racht in Munster; the other was speci- ally honoured in the diocese of Eilmore, and invoked by women in labour. The histories of both are unknown. Butler. St. Toga, DoGA. St. Togle, Tygria. St Tomaides, Thomias (2). St. Tonita, Quinta. St. Torchg:ith, Jan. 26 (Torctgyd, Theoritgitha, in French Thergite), 7 th or 8th century. A nun at Barking, under St. Ethelburoa (2), whom she assisted in the education of the younger nuns. For the last nine years of her life, Torchgith suffered from a painful disease which gradually took away the use of her limbs. One evening as she was going out of her room, she distinctiy saw a person, wrapped in a winding sheet and shining like the sun, drawn up towards heaven from the roof of the monastery. The vision was prophetic of the death of the holy abbess : which occurred a few days afterwards. Torch- gith lived three years longer, but her malady increased so much as to deprive her entirely of the power of walking and of speech. A few days before her death, she recovered the use of her tongue and was heard conversing with the departed abbess and begging her to pray that she might be released from her suffering life. Ethelburga promised that she should die in the night of the following day, and Torchgith gave thanks to God in an audible voice. Bede. AA.SS. Britannia Sancta, St. Torette, Taurbta. St. Tosa, DooA.