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B. PACIPICA 129 it as a foreign king. When, one even- ing, a wagon arrived at Bardeney; bearing the good king's body, they would not open their gates, so the cart was left all night outside the monastery. No sooner was it dark than a wondrous light ema- nated from the bier, and was seen for miles around by all the dwellers in the province, who saw as it were a pillar of glorious light standing over the saint's body and reaching up to heaven. In the morning the monks who had wished to send the relics back to North- umberland were eager to have the royal saint buried in their church. In 697, the Sooth Humbrians rebelled, and murdered Osthrida. She was buried at Bardeney. In 704, Ethelred resigned the throne to Eenred, the son of his brother Wulphere and St Ermenilda, and became a monk at Bardeney. He died there in 715, and was buried beside his wife. Ethelred and Osthrida left a son, Eel- red, who, in 709, succeeded his cousin Ceonred, and married St. Werebubga (2). Bede. British Mart, Ancient Britiah Piety, quoting a Saxon MS. St. Ostia, Spanish for Osith. St. Ostria, Osthbida. St. Ostrjrthe, Osthbida. St. Oswen, Osman. St. Oswenda or Osnenda, April 22, V. 11th century. Sister of B. Wolph- elm, abbot of Braunviller, near Cologne. Nun at Willick under St. Adelaide (4). AAJ3S., Prseter, Wion. Stadler. St. Oswith, Osith. St. Otha, Oda. St. Othilda, Odilia. St. Othildis, HoYLDA. St* Othilia sometimes means Odilia, sometimes Hotlda. St. Otta, Jutta. St. Ouenne or Onenne is considered, in Brittany, to be one of the many saintly children of a Breton king. She is called sister of St. Euriella, descended from Fracan, who is the same as the Welsh Brychan. Ouenne is perhaps the same as Gwendeline ; possibly the same as NoNNA, mother of St. David. St. Oufe or OuFFE, Ulphla. St. Ouille, Eulalia. St. Ouine (1), Eugenia. St. Ouine (2), Ouyne. St. Oulfe or OuLPHBE, Ulphia. St. Ouyne or Ouine, June 7. Date unknown. Ste. Ouine du Mans is pro- bably a Breton or Cornish saint whose relics have been placed, on some for- gotten occasion, in the crypt of the church of St. Victor, at Le Mans, where she works miracles in favour of the deaf. She is locally supposed to have been named Ouine on account of her patron- age of the sense of hearing (ouie), but Papebroch thinks that as Engenius has been corrupted into Ouen and Oyan, so Eugenia has become Ouyne, and this metamorphosed name has led deaf persons more than others to seek her intercession. He quotes a history of the bishops of Le Mans by Convaserius. AA,SS. St. Oyne, Eugenia. St. Ozilia of Namur, Jan. 3, April 5. First half of 13th century. The first name in the Calendar of Saints of the Cistercian Order, at the beginning of Henriquez's Lilia Cistercii. She was a devoted companion of St. Juliana of Li6ge, shared her persecutions, and died before her. She may be called also Odilla, Othilia, etc. AA,S8. Buceliuus. St Pacata, Pagata. B. Pacifica, March 24, V. + 1258, O.S.F. Belated to St. Clara (2) and one of her first nuns. First aUbess of Spello, where she miraculously produced a foun- tain of water, which flows to this day. On her return to Assisi she left a ring VOL. II. with which it was believed she was married to the Lord Jesus. This ring was on the point of being melted down by a goldsmith, but it miraculously dis- appeared out of his hands and appeared again in the armario at Spello. Hen- scheniuB does not consider her worship