his verse; he composed his songs only that they might be useful to the soul, and their solemn beauty did even more for the conversion than for the delight of his countrymen. Many were moved by them to despise this world, and to turn with ardent love to the divine life. He died as poets seldom die. At the very beginning of his illness he desired his bed to be made in that part of the infirmary which was assigned to the dying, and, while smiling and talking cheerfully with his brethren, asked for the _viaticum_. At the moment when he was about to administer the Communion to himself, from the pyx brought from the Church, according to the usage of the period, and while holding in his hands the Holy Eucharist, he asked all those around him, if any one had any grudge against him, or any complaint to make? All answered, "No." Then said he, "I, too, my children, have a mind at peace with all God's servants." A little while after he had received the venerable Sacrament, as they were about to waken the monks for Matins, he made the sign of the Cross, laid his head on the pillow, and fell asleep in silence, to awake no more. S. THEODORA, EMPRESS. (A.D. 867.) [Commemorated by the Greeks; not regarded as a Saint by the Western Church.] Theodora, wife of Theophilus, the Byzantine Emperor, has the glory of having brought to an end the triumph of the Iconoclasts in the East. After the death of her savage husband she ruled during the minority of her son, Michael III. Her claim to sanctity is certainly very questionable. [32] The term used throughout in the Acts is "the Collect." [33] These were, by laying her head on the altar to offer it to God, and all her life after wearing her hair long, as did the ancient Nazarenes: Act. p. 417. S. Optatus, c. 6. S. Ambr. and Virg. c. 8. But in Egypt and Syria the ceremony of this consecration consisted in the virgin cutting off her hair in the presence of a priest. [34] An instance of a child being, in the fourth century, allowed to assist at Mass. [35] _Lebito_, or _Levitonarium_, described thus in the life of S. Pachomius, c. 14. Levitonarium est colobium lineum sine manticis, quali Monachi Ægyptii utuntur. February 12. S. EULALIA, _V. M. at Barcelona_, A.D. 303. S. MELETIUS THE GREAT, _Patr. of Antioch_, A.D. 381. S. RIOCH, _Monk in Brittany_, 5th cent. S. ETHELWOLD, _B. of Lindisfarne_, A.D. 740. S. BENEDICT OF ANIANE, _Ab._, A.D. 821. S. ANTONY CAULEAS, _Patr. of Constantinople_, A.D. 896. S. BENEDICT, _B. of Albenga, in N. Italy_, A.D. 900. S. GOSLIN, _Ab. of Turin_, A.D. 1061. S. LUDAN, _C. near Strasbourg_, A.D. 1202. S. EULALIA, V. M. (A.D. 303.)