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Gregory, (Dial. and Annal. See Montfaucon, and Stilting, Sec. OUR saint's mother, who was a lady of eminent virtue, and of the firstquality at Orleans, while she wa

Ignatius gives it at the head of his epistle. Having losther husband in the seventh month of her marriage, she rejected the suitof Cerealis the consul, uncle of Gallus Caesar, and resolved to imitatethe lives of the ascetics of the East. By tears and prayers he ceased not to drawdown the blessings of the divine mercy on the souls committed to hischarge. d of the consecration ofourselves in union with our heavenly victim, through the intercessionof his virgin mother.