martyred at Porto Romano. The Martyrology of St. Jerome says that their sepulchre was venerated in Nisela, or in insula. The fragments of a magnificent stone were discovered at two different times, in 1837 and in 1858, about a mile from the walls of Porto Romano, near the Capo due Rami, where the island begins. All the modern discoveries tend to establish the tradition that the three martyrs were buried here. Civiltà Cattolica, seria vi. vol. 7, p. 481, Aug. 11, 1866. R.M., July 15. Boll., AA.SS. Leggendario delle Sante Vergini, Feb. 2.
St. Bonosa (2), May 10, M. at Tarsus, in Cilicia. Boll., AA.SS.
St. Bonosia, Feb. 2, M. at Borne, with Cappa and many others. Boll., AA.SS.
St. Borema, Beata (1).
St. Botild, or Bothildis, July 28. † 1102. Queen of Denmark. Daughter of Turgot, or Trugillus, a Swedish noble. Wife of Eric II. (Eyegod), king of Denmark (1095-1102), stepson of St. Guda. Botild suffered her husband's infidelities meekly. He was beloved by his people for many noble qualities, but was liable to fits of fury, in one of which he killed some of his faithful servants. His repentance was deep, and after paying the blood fine, he could not quiet his conscience without making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to atone for the sin of murder. When his intention was known, his people besought him not to go, and offered a third of their property to pay for Masses, and to buy off the king's vow. He insisted on going, and Botild determined to accompany him. One of his illegitimate sons was appointed regent. Knud, the only son Botild had given to Eric, was left at home; he grew up a great warrior, and was crowned King of the Obotrites by the Emperor Lothaire. The pilgrims went through Russia to Constantinople, and thence to Cyprus, where Eric was taken ill and died. Botild proceeded on her pilgrimage, and died on the Mount of Olives, within sight of the gates of Jerusalem, in 1102. Some historians place their death a year later. During their life, Eric's brother Knud, king of Denmark, was canonized. Vastovius, Vitis Aquiloniæ, Saxo Grammaticus, Hist. Dan. Otté, Scandinavia, Dalin. Svea Rikes Historia, Mas Latrie, Trésor, Hamsfortii, Chron. Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum, i. 271. Dahlmann, Denmark.
St. Boulogne, Bolonia.
St. Bourguine, Burgundofora.
St. Bova, Aprll 24, sometimes erroneously called Bona, in French Beuve, V. Abbess at Rheims. 6th or 7th century. Sister of St. Balderic, or Baudri, founder and abbot of Montfauçon, or Fauquemont, near Rheims. Those saints are said to have been the children of a King Sigebert. If Mr. Baring-Gould is right in making him Sigebert I., who began to reign 561, their mother was the celebrated Queen Brunehaut, whose marriage is said to be the first that was solemnized with a religious ceremony in France. Butler and Baillet say Bova was a great lady at the court of King Dagobert, and edified the court by her virtues until she was about thirty years old, when, about 639, she withdrew to the monastery St. Balderic had built for her in a suburb of Rheims. Here she was soon joined by her niece, St. Doda. Balderic went to stay with his sister and niece, and died in their nunnery. Bova did not long survive him. Doda succeeded her aunt as abbess, about 673. These saints are mentioned by Flodoard, in his history of the Church of Rheims (10th century). The original history of their lives was destroyed in a great fire. In the 10th century an anonymous author compiled another, with the help of the nuns who had often heard it read. Butler, Lives. Baillet, Vies. Hugo Menard, Mart. Ben. Baring-Gould, Lives, "St. Balderic," Oct. 16.
St. Boylette, Colette Boilet.
St. Bozena, Beatrice (2).
St. Breaca, Oct. 27, June 4 (Breage, Breca, Breock, Brig, Briga, Brigh). 5th or 6th century. Possibly the same as Briga (3) or (4). Breaca joined or headed a band of Irish missionary settlers. Accompanied by her foster-son, King Germoe, SS. Fingar and Piala, Ia, Burian, Crewenna, and several others, she crossed over from Ireland to Cornwall, where they landed
