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ST. TYGRIA 275 St. Twina or Touina. Supposed by Lazel to be a daughter or some relation of TouinianuB. A little chapel at Plouha (Cotes-dn-Nord) was formerly under the patronage of St. Touina ; it is now con- secrated to St. Eugenia. Sainte Tonine has sometimes been supposed to be Sainte Ouine, but Luzel thinks sevoral yeritable ancient Breton saints of both sexes haye been lost sight of through ima- ginary identifications with better known names and that this is a case in point. The legend is more like a fairy story than a Christian biography. The standard of morality is not very high. Touina suffers under the unkincbess of a wicked step-mother and her daughter. She leaves her unhappy home and goes to live with a robber chief, by whom she has a child. As she is not allowed to have it christened, she escapes with it, deposits it in her father's house and hastens to Borne to obtain absolution. The Pope refers her to a holy hermit, who takes her for an incarnation of eyil and refuses to listen to her. Eventually she is placed as servant in a family, where the hermit occasionally visits her and where she marries the son of the house. The hermit having instilled into her the duty of kindness to the poor, she vows never to refuse the request of a beggar. Her only child by this marriage dies, and true to her promise, she gives him to a beggar to eat. The child comes to life, the beggar turns out to be the hermit, and dies promising to receive Twina into everlasting bliss as soon as she shall have oompleted the education of her son. The details of the story are amusing. It is to be found in F. M. Luzel's Legendea Chrdtienne8 de la Basse Bretagne, which is Vol. III. of Litteratures populaires de toutes les ncUiona. St Tybie, Jan. 30, M. Daughter of Brychan. Murdered by pagans at Llandybie, in Carmarthenshire. Bees. {See Almheda.) St. Tydful, Aug. 21, M. by a party of Saxons and Picts, at Merthyr Tydvil (Tydful), with her aged father Brychan and one of her brothers, whose son incited the people to avenge their prince and put the enemy to flight. Bees. (See Almheda.) St. Tydie, daughter of Brychan. Bees. (See Almheda.) St Tjraia, Tygris, Toole, or Thecla (17), June 25, V. 6th century. She lived at Mauriana, now St. Jean do Maurienne in Savoy, in the time of King Gontram or Gunther. She had a widowed sister Pigmenia, and they led a religious life together, attending to the wants of the poor and hospitably re- ceiving pilgrims and priests. It happened that some pilgrims returning from Jeru- salem to Ireland rested on their journey at the house of the sisters, and told them how the relics of St. John the Baptist had been carried to various cities of the East, working miracles everywhere, and that some of them wore then at Alexandria in a church dedicated in his honour. Tygria made a pilgrimage to Alexandria and bound herself by a vow not to leave the place until she had obtained some portion of the sacred relics. The priests and inhabitants would not give her what she wanted. She remained constantly praying before the relics for two years. At the be- ginning of the third year, she prayed that God would not ^sappoint her of what she had so long prayed for and hoped to receive, and resolved not to rise from the ground until her petition was granted, choosing to die there rather than to depart without her blessing. She remained there &sting and weeping incessantly for three days, and then her prayer was granted, for she saw, outside the sepulchre of the Holy Baptist, a thumb and two fingers which had touched the head of the Saviour when He was baptized in the Jordan. She took the heavenly gift, put it in a box which she had long had ready, and feeling her lost strength revive, she set out on her return to her own country. When she had gone some miles, the people of Alexandria began to think it was absurd that a poor pilgrim should be allowed to carry off the treasure which was the honour of the kingdom and safeguard of the people, and they pursued her. She was dreadfuUy afraid, but knew not where to hide herself or hor treasure, so, commending herself to Him Who had already wrought one miracle in her