Caster.
The author of her life in Capgrave says, that she lived here a mirror of
all sanctity, and that no words can express the bowels of charity with
which she cherished the souls which served God under her care; and how
watchful she was over their comportment, and how zealous in instructing
and exhorting them; and with what floods of tears she implored for them
the divine grace and mercy. She had a wonderful compassion for the poor,
and strongly exhorted her royal brothers {523} to alms-giving and works
of mercy. Kyneswide and Kynedride (though many confounded the latter
with St. Kyneburge) were also daughters of Penda, left very young at his
death. By an early consecration of their virginity to God, they devoted
themselves to his service, and both embraced a religious state.
Kyneswide took the holy veil in the monastery of Dormundcaster.

The bodies of these saints were translated to Peterborough, where their
festival was kept on the 6th of March, together with that of Saint
Tibba, a holy virgin, their kinswoman, who, having spent many years in
solitude and devotion, passed to glory on the 13th of December. Camden
informs us, that she was honored with particular devotion at Rihal, a
town near the river Wash, in Rutlandshire. See Ingulphus, Hist. p. 850;
Will. of Malmesbury l. 4, de Pontif. p. 29; Capgrave and Harpsfield,
saec. 7, c. 23.

Footnotes:
1. Bede Hist. l. 3, c. 21.
2. Camdem in Rutlandshire.

ST. CADROE, C.

HE was a noble Scotsman, son of count (or rather laird) Fokerstrach, and
travelling into France, he took the monastic habit at Saint Bennet's on
the Loire. He afterwards reformed the monastery of St. Clement, at Metz,
in 960, and died in a visit which he made to Adelaide, mother of the
emperor Otho I., at Neristein, about the year 975. His relics are kept
at St. Clement's, at Metz, and he is honored on the 6th of March. See
Mabillon, sec. 5, Ben. p. 480, and sec. 6, p. 28; Henschenius; and
Calmet, Hist. de Lor. l. 19, n. 67, p. 1011.

MARCH VII.

ST. THOMAS OF AQUINO,

DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH AND CONFESSOR.

From his life written by Bartholomew of Lucca, some time the saint's
confessor: also another life compiled for his canonization by William of
Tocco, prior of Benevento, who had been personally acquainted with the
saint, &c. See F. Touron, in his life of St. Thomas, in quarto, Paris,
1737.

A.D. 1274.

THE counts of Aquino, who have flourished in the kingdom of Naples these
last ten