rvent prayers for the conversion of sinners, and
also for the souls in purgatory, often with many tears. Being seized
with her last sickness in her convent at Ghent, she received the
sacraments of the church, foretold her death, and happily expired in her
sixty-seventh year, on the 6th of March, in 1447. Her body is exposed to
veneration in the church of that convent called Bethleem, in Ghent. She
was never canonized, nor is she named in the Roman Martyrology: but
Clement VIII., Paul V., Gregory XIII., and Urban VIII., have approved of
an office in her honor for the whole Franciscan order, and certain
cities. Her body was taken up at Ghent, in 1747, and several miracles
wrought on the occasion were examined by the ordinary of the place, who
sent the process and relation of them to Rome.

ST. FRIDOLIN, A.

HE was an Irish or Scotch abbot, who, leaving his own country, founded
several monasteries in Austria, Burgundy, and Switzerland: the last was
that of Sekingen, in an isle in the Rhine, now one of the four forest
towns belonging to the house of Austria. In this monastery he died, in
538. He is the tutelar patron of the Swiss canton of Glaris, who carry
in their coat of arms his picture in the Benedictin habit, though he was
not of that order. See Molanus, Addit. ad Usuard; Pantaleon,
Prosopographiae Vir. Illustr. German. ad an. 502; King in Calend Wion,
Lignum Vitae, l. 3.

ST. BALDREDE, BISHOP OF GLASGOW, C.

HE was immediate successor of St. Mungo, in that see, established many
nunneries in Scotland, and died in the province of Laudon, about the
year 608. His relics were very famous in many churches in Scotland. See
Adam King, in Calend., and the historians Boetius, Major, Leslie, &c.

SS. KYNEBURGE, KYNESWIDE, AND TIBBA.

THE two first were daughters of Penda, the cruel pagan king of Mercia,
and sisters to three successive Christian kings, Peada, Wulfere, and
Ethelred, and to the pious prince Merowald. Kyneburge, as Bede informs
us,[1] was married to Alefrid, eldest sort of Oswi, and in his father's
life-time king of Bernicia. They are said to have lived in perpetual
continency. By his death she was left a widow in the bloom of life, and,
renouncing the world, governed a nunnery which she built; or, according
to others, found built by her brother Wulfere, in a moist fenny place,
on the confines of the counties of Huntingdon and Northampton, then
called Dormundcaster, afterwards, from her, Kyneburgecaster, now