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B. MARY ANNA 61 mm. She performed some miraculous cures and had other wonderful gifts. Her body was still fresh in 1828, when she was solemnly beatified. The rule of her Order forbade the use of silk or gold, even for the furniture of the church ; it forbade also music, vocal or instrumental ; but these points were set aside for the occasion of her beatifica- tion, by the Pope, at the request of many persons who wished to do great honour to her by having the festival as magnifi- cent as possible. An immense concourse of clergy were present, and every priest wanted to celebrate. There were only five altars in the church of the Annun- ciation, so they had to use the other churches that stood near. The festival lasted three days, on the evenings of which, all the neighbouring buildings were illuminated. Diario di Boma, March 5, 1828, and Sept. 19, 1829. Gynecseum. Stadler. Gu6rin. B. Mary (61), Aug. 16, a member of the confraternity of the Bosary, M. 1620, at Cocura in Japan. Wife of B. Thomas. They were crucified with their little boy. The prince tried between blows and promises to pervert the child ; but the plucky little fellow said, You think yon can frighten me. Here is my heart I Here is my neck I Strike I Kill me, but I die a Christian." He lived two dftys on the cross, and died, pierced with a lance. Authorities, same as for Lucy DE Fbkitas. B. Manr (62) of Fingo, Sept. 10, H. 1622. ^e was niece of the Governor of Nangasaki and married Andrew To- oouan Mourayama, a Brother of the Bosary. They sheltered Father de Morales in their house. Andrew was put to death as a Christian while they were both young. On account of her high birth, Mary was left at liberty for a few years. She lived in perpetual preparation and expectation of the martyr's death. At last, a messenger was sent to her house to summon her to the presence of Goncorou, the governor, to answer to the charge of being a Chris- tian. She answered that she would not go to hear impieties, and would never abjure her faith, but that she would go to the place of execution without any summons or any armed men to bring her. She did not appear at the trial, but next day she put off her mourning and, arrayed in white velvet, she seemed to have regained the health and strength that she had lost during her widowhood, and walked in the van of those who presented themselves for martyrdom, looking radiant in her recovered youth and beauty and in the joy of going to rejoin her husband and take a place among the martyrs. (See Lucy de Fbeitas.) B. Mary (63), Sept. 10, M. 1622, at Nangasaki, with her husband, B. Paul Tanaca. (See Lucy de Freitas.) B. Mary (64). Sept. lO, M. 1622, at Nangasaki, with her children and Lucy DE Freitas. Mary was widow of B. John Xoum or Chooun, who was burnt Nov. 18, 1619. Pag^s calls her Marina. B. Mary (^Qo) Tanaura, Sept. 10, M. 1622, at Nangasaki, with Lucy de Freitas. B. Mary (66), Sept. lO, a Japanese, M. in 1622, with her sons, John aged twelve, and Peter aged three. She was the wife of the Corean martyr Antony, a catechist of the Jesuit fathers. Authorities as for Lucy de Freitas. B. Mary (67) Anna of Jesus, April 17, 1565-1624. Daughter of Luis Na- varra de Gunvara, who held an office at the Court of Madrid, and Juanna Komero his wife. After her mother's death, her father and step-mother wished her to marry and resorted to unkindness of divers sorts to induce her to do so and to prevent her becoming a nun, but as she was desirous of sharing the suffer- ings of Christ, she found it easy to bear those she encountered in her own home. She sought admittance now to one con- vent, now to another, but was refused everywhere, as the nuns feared to draw upon themselves the anger of a powerful man. At last, when she was forty-two, her father losing hope of establishing her by a good marriage, consented to let her join the Order of St. Mary de Mercede for the Bedemption of Captive& Here she had to pass through eight years of proba- tion before she was allowed to take the habit, and in 1614 she took the vows.