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To abolish the heathen's lewd superstitious custom of boysdrawing the names of girls, in honor of their goddess Februa His, name is mentioned in the Roman and Sicilian Martyrologies. Erentrude, avirgin consecrated to God, for whom he built a great monastery, calledNunberg, of which {669} she was the first abbess. Footnotes:1.

These two great men visitedtogether the monasteries of Egypt, and were detained by St. Thefinal result of the proceedings was, to pronounce sentence of depositionagainst St. THEODORUS, the father of our saint, was secretary to the emperorConstantine Copronymus: but when that tyrant declared himse Wherefore, with a view to his expulsion, he persuaded the emperor,by the means of his wife Eudoxia, to order the bishop to make Pulcheria,sister to Theodosius, a deaconess of his church.