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286 ST. VERENA saints is related of her also : that her master grudged her giving away so much, and disbelieved her when she told him what she had in her hnndles and in her bottles, and on finding her faithful, treated her with more honour and confi- dence than before. Her tomb was for centuries a place of pilgrimage. Her commemoration occurs during the harvest festival and is celebrated with licentious observances. Miss Eckenstein cites her story and worship as one of the instances in which a tribal goddess has been transformed into a Clmstian saint, the heathen rites surviving amongst the peasantry. She gives a great many curious particulars of the superstitions with which her name is connected either as St. Verena or St. Yreke. When the girls of that region marry, they sacrifice their little maiden caps to St. Verena, and couples visit her shrine to pray for children. BM. AA,SS. Gahier. Miss Eckenstein, Woman under Monasticism, For the story of the Theban legion, AA.8S.i Sept. 22, "St. Maurice." Butler and Baillet, Sept. 22, and Smith and Wace*8 Dictionary of Christian Biography^ "Legio Thebroa," by the Rev. G. T. Stokes, and the Rev. Dr. Cazenove. St. Verena (2) or Verona, July 22, V. M. with St. Ursula (1). AA.SS. Smith and Waoe's Did. of Christian Bio- graphy. Camerarius daims her as a native of Scotland. Oynecseum. St. Verenice, Vkbonioa. St. Verge, Virgana. St. Verinna, Berinna. St. Verle, Pharaildis. St. Verona (l), Veronica (1). St. Verona (2), July 10, M. at Antioch. AA.SS. St. Verona (3), Vbrena (2). St Verona (4), Aug. 29, founder of the monastery of Veronhoven near Louvain. 9th or 10th century. She was probably a lady of high rank and a nun at Louvain. Legend says she was daughter of Louis, king of Austrasia, and after his death reigned in her own right for fifteen years. She had a twin brother St. Veronus, who during his father's life exchanged his birthright for the calling of a hermit. When he took leave of his sister ho told Iior the time of his death would be announced to her by the fall of two tall trees, then growing at the door of the king's palace, and that, moreover, they would point in the direc- tion of his resting-place. This happened when she had been queen aboat five years. She set off in a car drawn bj white oxen to pray at her brother's grave, and found it at Lemberg near Lonvain. After many miraculous inddents she returned to her own country and convent, and after ruling well for ten years more, she made over the kingdom to her hein and announced to her nuns that she was going to visit her brother and would not return. She again set off in a car with white oxen. At Mainz she fell ill and died. The chief men of the city wished to keep the body of the saint, in her own city, but earthquakes and plagues of sorts warned them to comply with her dying wish, to let her own white oxen take her whither they would ; so the people dressed her in silken robes, set the crown on her head, laid her on her own cart, and left her to her white oxen. They took her to Goblentz and there all the bells rang and sick people went to meet the saint and be cored of their infirmities. Next she came to Holy Cross, afterwards called St. Verona's Mount. There the oxen stood still. The bells rang and the people took the sacred body out of the carriage and buried it in the middle of the chnnh. Her grave was level with the floor, not raised like the tombs of most of the Galilean saints. For centuries it was regarded as a sacred spot. A fountain outside the church was long resorted to as a cure for fever. On the day of her burial a fEunine which was desolat- ing Brabant gave place to abnndanoe. AA.SS. Le Mire, Fasti Wion, Lt^iiti» Vitse. Martin. St. Veronica (l). Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 15, March 25, Nov. 27, Dec 2o (Berenice, Beronica, Gk)DELn, The Holt Face, Image, Imagine, Imogens, SiNDONE, Saint-Suaire, Yenica, Venioi, Venise, Verenice, Yerona, Ysronixa, YouLT). As Yeronica, patron of Be- san9on. As Yenise she is patron of lingeres at Paris and Li^ge, at Bols