nd=, the noble husband of Lady Imogine, murdered by Count
Bertram, her quondam lover.--C. Maturin, _Bertram_ (1816).

=St. Alme= (_Captain_), son of Darlemont, a merchant, guardian of Julio,
count of Harancour. He pays his addresses to Marianne Franval, to whom
he is ultimately married. Captain St. Alme is generous, high-spirited,
and noble-minded.--Thomas Holcroft, _The Deaf and Dumb_ (1785).

=St. Andre=, a fashionable dancing-master in the reign of Charles II.

St. Andre's feet ne'er kept more equal time.

Dryden, _MacFlecknoe_ (1682).

=St. Asaph= (_The dean of_), in the court of Queen Elizabeth.--Sir W.
Scott, _Kenilworth_ (1821).

=St. Basil Outwits the Devil.= (See SINNER SAVED.)

=St. Botolph= (_The Prior of_). Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard
I.).

=St. Cecili=, =Cecily=, or =Cecile= (2 _syl._), the daughter of noble
Roman parents, and a Christian. She married Valirian. One day, she told
her husband she had "an aungel ... that with gret love, wher so I wake
or slepe, is redy ay my body for to kepe." Valirian requested to see
this angel, and Cecile told him he must first go to St. Urban, and,
being purged by him "fro synne, than [_then_] schul ye see that aungel."
Valirian was accordingly "cristened" by St. Urban, returned home, and
found the angel with two crowns, brought direct from paradise. One he
gave to Cecile and one to Valirian, saying that "bothe with the palme of
martirdom schullen come unto God's blisful feste." Valirian suffered
martydom first; then Almachius, the Roman prefect, commanded his
officers to "brenne Cecile in a bath of flamm[^e]s red." She remained in
the bath all day and night, yet, "sat she cold, and felte of it no woe."
Then smote they her three strokes upon the neck, but could not smite her
head off. She lingered on for three whole days, preaching and teaching,
and then died. St. Urban buried her body privately by night, and the
house he converted into a church, which he called the church of
Cecily.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ ("The Second Nun's Tale," 1388).

=St. Christopher=, a native of Lycia, very tall, and fearful to look at.
He was so proud of his strength that he resolved to serve only the
mightiest, and went in search of a worthy master. He first entered the
service of the emperor; but one day, seeing his master cross himself for
fear of the devil, he quitted his service for that of Satan. This new
master he found was thrown into alarm a