Jan 212010
![[Saint Eustochium]](http://saints.sqpn.com/sainte79.jpg "36kb jpg detail from 'Saint Jerome with Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium', c.1645 by Francisco de Zurbaran; Samuel H Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art")
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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.
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Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Kirken i Norge
- Letter to Eustochium, by Saint Jerome
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
MLA Citation
- “Saint Eustochium”. Saints.SQPN.com. 12 August 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-eustochium/>