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Euʹlalie (St.)

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Euʹlalon is one of the names of Apollo; but in the calendar there is a virgin martyr called Euʹlalie, born at Merʹida, in Estramaduʹra. When she was only twelve years old, the great persecution of Diocleʹtian was set on foot, whereupon the young girl left her maternal home, and, in the presence of the Roman judge, cast down the idols he had set up. She was martyred by torture, February 12th, 308.

Longfellow calls Evangeline the “Sunshine of St. Eulălie.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Etrennes
Ettrick Shepherd
Etzel
Eucharis
Eucharist
Euclio
Eucratēs
Eudoxians
Eugenius
Eugubine Tables
Eulalie (St.)
Eulen-spiegel (Thyl)
Eumæos
Eumenides [the good-tempered goddesses]
Eumnestes [Memory]
Eunomians
Eupatridæ
Euphemisms
Eureka
Eurus
Eurydicē