Saint Eustochium
![[Saint Eustochium]](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")
- Memorial
- 28 September
- Profile
- Daughter of Saint Paula 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
- Died
- c.419 at Bethlehem of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Kirken i Norge - norwegian
Letter to Eustochium, by Saint Jerome
New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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