ST. AQUILIXA 81 volnntarily sought them ; but St. Apol- lonia has always been ranked among the martyred Saints. This persecution is described in a letter ^preserved by Eusebins) from St. DionysiQS, Bishop of Alexandria, to Fabius, Bishop of Antioch. It was not commanded by the Emperor Philip, who &voured the Christians, but was an out- break of ill feeling on the part of the Alexandrians, stirred up to hostility against the Christians by a poet and soothsayer. B.M. Villegas. Tillemont. Baillet, Callot. Husonbeth. Her apocryphal Aci3, given by Bol- landns, place her martyrdom in the time of Julian the Apostate, who kills her with his own hand. B. ApoUonia (2), Sept. 10, 1622. M. A widow, aged sixty, descended from the Kings of Firando. She lived with Mabt Moubayama, and was put to death with her and Lucy Freitas (q.v,). Apol- lonia*s nephew, Gkisper Cotenda, and his son Francis were martyred next day. St Appamia. M. with St. Julia of Troyes. St. Apphia, or Appia (1), Nov. 22, M. 1st century. Wife of St. Philemon, a citizen of Colosse. Tho Epistle of SS. Paul and Timothy concerning Onesimus is addressed to Philemon and *' our be- loved Apphia." In the Roman Catholic version she is called, '* Appia, our dearest sister." The Raman Martyrdogy and the Greek menologies say SS. Philemon and Apphia, disciples of St. Paul, suf- fered martyrdom at Colosse in Phrygia. When, on the festival of Diana, tho heathen invaded the churches and some Christians fled, these two were scourged by order of Artocles, the prefect, and afterwards buried up to their waists in the ground, and stoned to death in that defenceless condition. More modern writers say the manner of their death appears to indicate that it was perpe- trated by a mob, in a riot, and not by legal trial and sentence. Tradition makes St Philemon Bishop of Graza. The Menology of Basil places the martyr- dom at Epheeus. Baillet, Vies. Phile- mon 2. St. Appia (1), Apphia. St Appia (2), June 1, M. with St. AucEGA. AA,SS, St Appia (3), June 20, M. at Corinth. AA.SS. St Appoline, Apollonia. St. Apra, Afra. St Aprincia, or Prbck, June 22, 25, V. Abbess of Epinal on the Moselle, loth century. Her relics were kept in the monastery of St. Clement at Metz (Metis). Papebroch could ascertain nothing of her date or history, and sus- pected she might be the same as Apho- nia, July lo. AA.SS. Stadler. St Apronia, or Evronia, July 15, Sept. 15. 5th century. Invoked by women in labour and other danger. Bom at Troyes, in Champagne. Sister- of St. Apere, or Epirus (in French Evre),. Bishop of Toul. AA.SS,, July 15. Baillet, in the Life of St. Eore, Sept. 15* Petis BoUandistes. St Apt, or Aphte, Feb. 5. St.. Agatha is worshipped under this name in Provence, and a town is called after her. St. Aquila, Jan. 23, M. with SS. Severian her husband, and Florus their son ; they were burnt at Neo-CaBsarea, anciently Jol, on tho coast of Mauri- tania. Marty rology of Salisbury. Boll., AA.SS. B.M. St Aquilina (l), Jan. 22, M. 291. Mother of St. Victor, a priest or deacon, who for the crime of showing hospi- tality to the martyrs SS. Vincent and Oronto,had his arms cut off by the elbows,, and was then beheaded. His father, although a Christian, was going to flee from the persecutors, but at the entreaty of Aquilina, he remained at home, where they were both soon put to death with another son. These events took place either at Gerunda (Gerona in Catalonia), or at Pax Augusta (Badajoz), or Pax Julia (Beja). Tho relics of all these martyrs were removed to Ebrodunum (Embrun, Alpes Maritimes, in France). BoUandus, AA.SS. Cahier, Caract<^r- istiques Voc. Groupes, St Aquilina (2), June 13, V. M. 293. Daughter of Christians at Byblus, the place called in the Old Testament Gebal, the city of tho Giblites, a very o
