Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology, and Ado. Usuardus, Hrabanus. and Notker But Galesinius, Maurolycus, Felicius, and Ferrarius on July 1st. By the Greeks on July 6th. The Acts are perhaps founded on fact. The date of the martyrdom is fixed by the name of the prefect of the city, «A£iius* This may have been iGlius Dionysius, in 301.] In one of the barbarian incursions into Italy, a young, damsel named Luceja was carried off from the surburbs of Rome in 271, by Aucej s, a king of the Alemanni. He was, no doubt, a chief of a marauding party belonging to the main army, which in that year made an irruption into Italy tha‘. ended fatally in the decisive battles of Fano md the Pesaro. The prince was inflamed with passion for 1 Other versions are far more preposterously absurd. june aj.i S. Febronia his young and beautiful captive, but when she announced to him that she was a Christian, and a virgin dedicated to Christ, his sentiments were changed to awe-struck and reverend devotion. He erected for her a tent in which she could live alone and unseen, served by maidens of his tribe. He consulted her as a prophetess, regarding her as the ancient Goths and Germans did their female priestesses. When he went to battle, he asked her prayers and her benediction. Thus passed twenty years, in which she was reverenced as the oracle of the tribe. At the end of that time Luceja desired to return to Rome. She asked per mission to depart, it was regretfully accorded, and the king accompanied her to Rome, forgetful of his wife and family, and resolved to be guided by Luceja, even to death. Immediately on their arrival in Rome, they were arrested by order of ^Emilius, the prefect of the city, and were decapitated.