Once, hearing that a man was sentenced to pay a heavy fine, or have his hand chopped off, and that he was unable to ransom his hand, she sold herself as a slave, and with the money would have redeemed the hand from amputation, had not the magistrates, touched by her charity, pardoned the man. Having once given way to intemperate speech towards someone who had annoyed her, she punished herself by nipping her tongue with a pair of pincers, so that she was unable to speak for two or three days after. She built a convent for those women who had placed themselves under her direction, near the old watch-box on the walls, and gave it the name of "The Annunciation," but the title was changed afterwards to that of "Our Lady of the Angels." Towards the end of her life she lost her sight. She died on Feb. 10th, 1346, and was buried in the church of her convent, where her relics are still preserved. The cult of her was approved in 1784 by Pope Pius VI., and her commemoration was fixed for the 10th February. [31] Dialog. ii., c. 12, 23, 33. [Illustration] February 11. S. CALOCERUS, _B. of Ravenna, 2nd cent._ S. TIGRINUS, _M. at Rome; relics at Turin, 2nd cent._ SS. SATURNINUS AND COMPANIONS, _MM. at Carthage_, A.D. 303. S. JONAS THE GARDENER, _Monk in Egypt, 4th cent._ S. LAZARUS, _B. of Milan; circ_. A.D. 449. S. CASTRENSIS, _B. of Volterra; circ_. A.D. 450. S. SECUNDINUS, _B. of Troja in Southern Italy; circ._ A.D. 450. S. EUPHROSYNE, _V. at Alexandria; circ._ A.D. 470. (_Transferred from Jan. 1st._) S. SEVERINUS, _Ab. of S. Maurice in the Valais_, A.D. 506. S. ECIAN, B. in Ireland; circ. A.D. 587. S. CEADMON, _Monk at Whitby; circ._ A.D. 680. S. THEODORA, _Empress at Constantinople_, A.D. 867. S. MARTIN, _P. at Leon in Spain_, A.D. 1221. S. ADOLPH, _B. of Osnaburgh_, A.D. 1222. SS. SATURNINUS AND COMPANIONS, MM. (A.D. 303.) [Roman Martyrology. In the ancient African Church, as we learn from S. Augustine, their commemoration took place on Feb. 12th, and on that day they are given by Usuardus. The Acts are genuine. They were appealed to in the reign of Honorius, in 412, during the Donatist controversy to prove that even in the stress of persecution, Christians had not failed to attend Divine Service on the Lord's Day. S. Augustine also quotes them in his book against Cresconius, lib. iii. c. 17, 26, 27, and 29, written in 406. The Synodical Epistle of the Council of the Catholic Bishops held at Cirta which quotes these Acts, is included among the works of S. Augustine in the Benedictine Edition, numbered Ep. 141. It is dated the 14th June, 412.]