Saint Eustochium

Memorial

• 28 September

Profile

Daughter of Saint Paula of Rome and Roman senator Toxotius. Sister of Saint Blaesilla Spiritual student of Saint Jerome in 382. Made a personal vow of perpetual virginity. Spoke Latin and Greek, and could read Hebrew. Travelled with Paula and Jerome to the Holy Land where she helped with the Vulgate Bible translation, working as Jerome‘s housekeeper, reading and writing for him when his eyesight began to fail. When Paula died in 404, Eustochium took over the spiritual direction of three women‘s communities formerly guided by her mother.

Born

• c.369 at Rome, Italy

Died

• c.419 at Bethlehem of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• Letter to Eustochium, by Saint Jerome
• National Gallery of Art
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Eustochium“. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 March 2013. Web. 19 June 2013. <>