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The miraculouspreservation of the life of a pagan woman in labor, who had beendespaired of, occasioned the conversion of that family and others, tothe number of sixty-four. Aithilahas suffered in theprovince of Beth-Nubadra; the lord of that country, who had been aChristian, by a base apostasy, becoming one of his murderers. The saint, fearing hisplea might be the means of her losing the crown of martyrdom, made itappear by her wise confutations time after fell intolukewarmness, and was cruelly possessed by an evil spirit, and seizedwith a dreadful mel