Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology, and those of Usuardus, Ado, Notker, &c.; also three copies of the ancient Roman Martyrology called that of S. Jerome. Authority The ancient Acts of S. Eugenia (Dec. 25th), which were known and quoted in the 5th cent., at the Council of Epaone; but these acts are nevertheless to be rejected as fabulous, as Papebroeck shows, by pointing out such egregious blunders in history as divest them of all claim on our attention as trustworthy. Nevertheless, Giry and Guerin give them without a hint that they are not trustworthy authority.] HE ancient martyrologies say that on this day Basilla, a virgin, suffered death on the Salarian way at Rome. In 1654 the catacomb of S. Cyriacus was being investigated, when on the third story was found a white marble slab covering a sepulchre, on which was engraved Basilla, with the symbols of a palm-branch and a dove, emblems of martyrdom and virginity. Within were found the bones, together with a phial such as that frequently found in the catacombs, and supposed to contain some of the blood of the martyr. V 1 m0ther,of S; Flavia Domitilla (May.2th); she is said to have been baptized by b. Peter, and to have been present at the martyrdom of S. Paul. ■S. Thallelceus.

The bones were enshrined and given the Hospital Sisters of the Hotel-Dieu at Bayeux, in Normandy. In 1833 two portions of the bones were removed and given by the bishop to the hospital at Rennes, and to the nuns of Notre Dame de la Charit^ at Bayeux.