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ST. VICTORIA 201 gave lier the religious veil and she begged Viborada to promise that she shonld succeed Bachild, whose death was daily expected. Bachild, however, lived some years longer, and four years after the retreat of Wendilgard, news came of the return of Udalric, who demanded to have his wife restored to him. The bishops decreed that notwithstanding her monas- tic profession, she must return to her husband. Wendilgard promised that if she survived her husband she would renew her vows, and meantime resolved if she had a child, to dedicate it to God in a religious life. She died in giving birth to Burohardus Ingenitus. Udalric faithfully fulfilled his wife's pious wish, by placing his son in the abbey of St. Gall, of which he eventually became abbot. Meanwhile the Hungarians ra- vaged the country where Yiborada dwelt, and the bishop offered her a retreat in a fortress, but she would neither leave her cell nor allow her friend Bachild to be taken from her, promising the friends of the latter that she should be safe. She advised all the priests of St Magnus' church, of whom her brother was the chief, to take refuge in the fortress. The Htmgarians arrived, burnt the church, and not being able to bum the cell, took off the roof and found the saint praying. They expected to find gold and silver concealed in her cell, and being enraged at their disappointment, they knocked her down with three blows of their axes, and loft her for dead. She lived until the next day. Hitto was going to bury her immediately, but Biachild, whom they had not touched, bade him wait for the abbot of St. Gall, who came with his monks, took up the body of the martyr with great solemnity, and placed it first, for safety, in the fortress already men- tioned, and after the invasion was over, in his church, where it remained during the twenty-one years that Bachild sur- vived, after which both were placed in the church of St. Magnus. St. Viborada was worshipped as a saint immediately after her death. In 1047, Clement II. having read ^er life and miracles, sent and ordered Norbert, bishop of St. Q«ll, to canonize her, complaining that he or his predecessors had neglected to do so, although God had been manifesting her holiness for more than a century. She is in the Grerman and Benedictine mar- tjrrologies. Her Life was written by Hartman, a monk of St. GkJl, thirty- three years after her death, from the information of persons who had known her ; and a hundred years afterwards, by Hipidaunus, another monk of St. GtXi. : both are published by Bollandus, AA.SS.y and Mabillon, AA.SS.O.S.B. BaUlet. St. Vicenza, Vinoentia. St. Vico or Virgo. (See Anna (7).) St Victia or Viotias, May 28, one of twenty-six martyrs at Bome with St. Epegatus. AA.88. St Victoria (l), Dec. 23, V. M. 250 or 253. A Boman lady betrothed to Eugenius, a heathen, who begged her to persuade her sister or friend St. Ana- tolia (2) to marry his friend Titus Aurelius. Victoria tried, but instead of succeeding she was persuaded by Anatolia to make a vow of virginity. Eugenius fearing that her property would be confiscated if she were openly denounced as a Christian, obtained an order from the emperor to have the two girls taken to villas belonging to their betrothed husbands. These ^nllas were near the Lacus Velinus and near the little town of Thora in Umbria. There they were starved nearly to death, and instead of apostatising they made many converts. After three years of persecu- tion, during which she performed many miracles, Victoria was stabbed by Tali- archus, the executioner. He was at once smitten with leprosy and died in six days. Anatolia was put to death within the year. She and Victoria are honoured together, Dec. 18. B,M, Martyrum Acta. St Victoria (2) of Avitina, Feb. 11, V. M. 304. The Emperor Diocletian having ordered all Christian churches to be destroyed and every copy of the sacred books to be given up and burned, the Christians concealed their books as best they could, and met together secretly for divine service. Fifty of them were assembled one Sunday, in the house of Octavius Felix, at Avitina or Alutina in Proconsular Africa; St. Satuminus, a priest of that town, was officiating.