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ry\ k<- ''0^ THE ittijcs Of tlje ^atnt0 REV. S. BARING-GOULD SIXTEEN VOLUMES VOLUME THE TWELFTH I*- First Edition published 1872 Second Edition 1897 New and Revised Edition, 16 vols. ,, jojj. >*- < oi Q X < Q > Q o u c o U-, r//^^ THE Hitjes? of tf)e §>aint0 BY THE REV. S. BARING-GOULD, M.A. With Introduction and Additional Lives of English Martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh Saints, and a full Index to the Entire Work New and Revised Edition ILLUSTRATED BY 473 ENGRAVINGS VOLUME THE TWELFTH October—PART n EDINBURGH: JOHN GRANT 31 GEORGE IV BRIDGE 1914 — *u »i< * 3X Printed by Ballantynr, Hanson &^ Co at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh »4- CONTENTS B PAGE FAGB S. Abban of Killabban 652 S. Balderic .... 427 „ Abban of Maghar- „ Bercharius . .431 noidhe .... 653 „ Bertrand, B. of „ Acca, B. of Hex- Comminges . 436 ham 501 „ Bolonia 415 „ Agleus 357 „ Bond, or Baldus . 708 SS. Alexander & comp. 564 „ Boniface I., Pope . 636 Alodia and . ,, Nunilo 575 „ Bradan, B. of Man 498 S. Ambrose, B. of SS. Breaca and la . 657 Cahors .... 433 „ Brothen and Gwen- SS. Amplias and comp. 724 doline .... 476 „ Anastasia the Elder, and Cyril . 697 S. Andrew of Crete . 451 SS. Aneurin & Gwynoc 646 S. Cadfarch . .616 S. Arilda 723 SS. Caprasius & comp. 495 „ Artemius .... 496 „ Chrysanthus and „ Asterius .... 505 Daria .... 620 . „ Austrude .... 447 ,, Chrysteta & comp. 649 VI Contents PAGE PAGE . S. Abbot . S. Colman, 669 Frideswide . 484 „ Colman, B. of Kill- „ Fronto, B. of Peri- ruadh .... 418 gueux . .631 Colman MacDuach . „ „ Frumentius . 650 „ Cordula .... SS. Crispin & Crispinian 628 „ Cyril and Anastasia 697 S. Cyrilla 685 S. Gall 419 „ Gaudentius, B. of D Brescia .... 635 „ Germock .... 658 SS. Daria and Chrysan- „ Goeznou .... 639 thus 620 SS. Gwendoline and „ DomnoandDomnio 703 Brothen . 476 S. B. of Donatus, „ Gwynoc & Aneurin 646 Fiesoli .... 575 S. Gwymer, or Wymer 659 ,, Dorbhene .... 700 „ Gwythian .... 659 E H S. Eata 647 S. Hedwig 456 „ Elesbaan .... 659 „ Hero 437 „ Elfleda, Abbess of ,, Hilarion 506 Rumsey . .714 „ Elfleda of Glaston- bury 580 I „ Ehvyn 658 SS. la and Breaca 657 „ Ermelind .... 707 S. Irene . 499 „ Ethbin 484 „ Etheldreda . 440 SS. Ethelred and Ethel- J bert 438 Deacon S. Eusebia .... 703 James, 476 B. of Ber . John, „ Evaristus, Pope . 643 gamo . 705 John Cantius . 503 John Capistran 582 . S. Faro, B. of Meaux . 698 Jude, Ap. 674 SS. Felicissimus and Julian Sabas . 473 . Rogatianus . 644 Junian 417 S. Felix of Tubzacene 601 Justus, Boy . 471 „ Fidelis 696 „ Fintan Munnu . 556 K „ Firmilian, B. of Cjesarea . 686 S. Kennera 713 „ Foillan 721 ,, Kiara 429 *- -»$• Contents Vll S. Levan 658 „ Louthiern .... 43S SS. Lucian and Marcian 644 „ Lucilla and Neme- sius 725 „ Lucius and Ptole- meeus .... 478 S. Luke, Evan. 467 „ Lullus, Abp. of Mainz .... 434 M s. Vlll Conteiits V S. Thecla . 357 PAGE ,, Theonestus 720 SS. Varus and others . 480 „ Theresa 358 „ Vincent, Sabina, and „ Tryphonia . 471 Chrysteta . 649 U W S. Uni 658 SS. Urban and comp. 724 S. Wendelin .... 561 „ Ursula and Eleven „ Wolfgang, B. of Thousand Virgins 535 Ratisbon 728 ^- -* LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS S. David's Cathedral Frontispiece S. Theresa toface p. 358 S. Theresa 370 S. Theresa Writing 372 S. Theresa pleading for the Souls in Purgatory 382 Christus Consolator ,, 414 S. Etheldreda » 440 S. Luke painting the Virgin . 46S After the Picture by Jean Gossaert at the Cathedral of Prague. SS Justus and Justinian . » 471 S. Frideswide 484 S. Ursula 536 Reliquary of S. Ursula 540 By Hans Memling, in the Chapel of S. John Hospital at Bruges. S. Gregory the Great {see March \itJi) 642 An early Portrait. From a MS. Station by Adam Krafft . „ 670 S. Jude, Ap. {see p. 674) .... on p. 700 -B -* List of Ill2ist7'ations S. Thadd^US {see p. 679) w//. 716 S. Ap. Simon, {see Oct. 2W1) . S. QUINTIN .... to fate p. 724 A/ier Cahiek. Altar at Ratisbon on p. 732 »^^— -^ *- —* Lives of the Saints October 16. S. Agleus, M. at Carthage. SS. CCCLX. Moors, M.'iT. at Cologne; circ. A.D. 286. S. AuRELlA, V. at Ratisbon; ^th or $th cent. S. CONOGAM, B. of Q-aimper in Brittany ; tth cent, S. Leonard, C. at Auticn; circ. a.d. 570. S. Thecla, V. Ahss. at Kitzingen in Franconia ; Zth cent. S. Sabinus, B. 0/ Catania in Sicily; %thcent. S. Theresa, V. at Alva in Spain; a.d. 1582. S. AGLEUS, M. (uncertain date.) [Modern Roman Martyrology, inserted by Baronius arbitrarily on this fiay. In the Carthaginian Kalendar on Jan. 25, and on the same day in the Epternach copy of the Martyrology of Jerome.] AUGUSTINE preached a sermon on the festival of S. Agleus, and mention is made of the church dedicated to this saint in the life of S. Fulgentius of Ruspe. S. Gregory the Great received the relics of the saint from Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage, as appears from a letter of the great pope which is extant. S. THECLA, V. ABSS. (8th cent.) [Roman and German Martyrologies. Wyon, Wilson, and Bucelinus.] S. Thecla was a virgin in Wimborne Abbey, who accom- panied S. Lioba to Germany when the latter was summoned thither by her kinsman, S. Boniface. Thecla was apparently also related to S. Boniface ; she was made by him abbess of the monastery of Kitzingen-on-the-Maine, on the death of S. Hadeloga in 766. Before that she ruled the abbey of Ochsenfiirt. VOL. XII. I —^ ^ * >ff * Lives the Saints. 358 of [Oct. is- S. THERESA, V. (a.d. 1582.) [Roman— Mart5Tology. Canonized by Gregoiy XV. in 1621. Autho- rities : A Life by Francis de Ribera, S.J., written in 1590. "Testimonia de S. Teresia, prolata a Didaco Yepes," pub. in 1606. Also, S. Theresa's own Memoirs, written at the command of her director, and her Book of the Foundations. Also her Letters.] S. Theresa was bom on the 28th of March, 15 15, of noble parents, at Avila in Old Castile. Her fathers name was Alphonso Sanchez de Cepeda, who was married twice. His first wife, Catharino del Peso y Essai, presented him with two sons and a daughter. His second wife, Beatrix D' Avila y Ahumada, was the mother of our saint, and of eight other children — Ferdinand, Roderic (born before Theresa), Laurence, Antony, Peter, Jerome, Augustine, and Joanna. A convent of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites now occupies the site of the old house in which S. Theresa was bom, and the room in which she entered the world is con- verted into a little chapel. She was baptized on the day she was born, in the neighbouring church of S. Bartholomew. The font is still preserved. " She writes : I had virtuous parents, and such as feared God. My father took great delight in reading good books, and he had them in Spanish, that his children might be able to read them also. This circumstance, together with the care my mother took to make us say our prayers, and to show us how to be devout to our Lady and some other saints, began to affect me when I was about six or seven years old. My father was exceedingly charitable towards to the sick infirm the poor, and kind and ; and even to his -* SAINT THERESA. Oct., p. 358.] [Oct. 15. k * * ^' Theresa. Oct. .5.] 359 servants he was so considerate, that he never would keep slaves. Once there was a slave in his house who belonged to a brother of his, and he treated him as if he were one of his own sons, and said he could not bear to see men not free. He was a great lover of truth ; no one ever heard him swear or others he was also disparage ; exceedingly chaste. My mother likewise had many virtues, and she passed through life under great infirmities. She had a sweet disposition and a sound understanding. The afflictions she bore all her life were very numerous ; and when she died she made a most Christian end. There were three sisters and nine brothers all resembled our in ; parents being good, ex- father . cept myself, though my loved me best of all. My brothers in no way prevented me from serving God. One of them was about my age, and I loved him more than all the rest at the same I ; though, time, must add that I loved them all very tenderly, and they loved me." This little brother and Theresa, as children, began reading together the lives of the saints, and were filled with admira- tion for their heroism, and with eager desire to follow in their steps. In their childish excitement they set off together to go to in Morocco, hopes of being there martyred for the faith, but their mother sent servants after them and brought them home. Then the children attempted to build hermitages in the garden, into which to retire and imitate the Fathers of the Desert, but the stones tumbled down. Theresa lost her " mother when she was only twelve years old. When I began to understand what a loss I had sustained, I was greatly afflicted, and I threw myself before an image of our Lady, beseeching her, with many tears, to be a mother to me. And though I performed the act in simplicity, yet I think I gained benefit thereby, for I have clearly experienced the assistance of the Sovereign Virgin whenever I have recom- mended myself to her." The death of her mother was a ^ ii< *- -* Lives the Saints, 36o of [Oct. 15. great loss to Theresa in more ways than one. She took to romance but lest her father should know it reading, secretly, ; as he objected to these books, which were not harmless, like many modern novels, but contained much which was calcu- lated to " injure the modesty of a young girl's soul.