The lives of the saints . gh the window when it was, and jump intothe spring. The queen became aware of these nocturnalexcursions, and did not think well of them. Indeed, hersuspicions were that Elfleda was paying visits most ob-jectionable in any girl, especially in a nun. So one nightshe followed her—not out of the window, we presume;that would hardly have been dignified in a queen—andwhen she saw Elfleda singing psalms in a pond, she wentinto a fit of hysterics, which collected at once a crowd of *- -* 7i6 Lives of the Saints. [Oct. 29. male and female servants on the spot. The situation wa
The lives of the saints . gh the window when it was, and jump intothe spring. The queen became aware of these nocturnalexcursions, and did not think well of them. Indeed, hersuspicions were that Elfleda was paying visits most ob-jectionable in any girl, especially in a nun. So one nightshe followed her—not out of the window, we presume;that would hardly have been dignified in a queen—andwhen she saw Elfleda singing psalms in a pond, she wentinto a fit of hysterics, which collected at once a crowd of *- -* 7i6 Lives of the Saints. [Oct. 29. male and female servants on the spot. The situation was notagreeable to Elfleda. S. Merwinna died in 993, and was succeeded by Elwina,who, however, remained abbess only three years; after herdeath, in 996, Elfleda was summoned to assume the dignityand authority of abbess. She exhibited in that capacitygreat charity towards the poor—-a charity almost excessive,as she spent rather more than the abbey could afford. Shedied at an advanced age, probably about the year ThaddaBus. *- -* 1^ —>J« Oct. 30.] S. Serapion. 717 October 30. S. Serapion, Antiock; 212. SS. XIII. at Alexandria; 250. S. EuTROPlA, M. at Alexmidria; 250. S. Marcellus, M. at Tangiers ; circ. 298. S. Saturninus, M. at Cagliari in Sardinia; 303. SS. Zenobius, , and Zenobia, at ^gia in Cilicia; Maximus, ; circ. , Claudius, Lupercus, and Victorius, MM. at Leon., in Spain ; circ. , Theonestus, at Altino; circ. Pientius, Agentius, and Columba, CC, at Moyenvic, neat Nancy ; 6th Talarican, in Scotland; 6th Illogan, C. in Geemanus, B. ofCapiia; circ. FoiLLAN, at Fosses, near Naniur; Gerard, B, 0/Potenza, in Italy ; Aeilda, at Kington, near Tkombury^ Gloucestershire,F. OF Holy Relics at Nevers, in Ftance. S. SERAPION, B. OF ANTIOCH.( 212.) [Roman Martyrology. Usuardu
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