Saint Paula
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- Also known as
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Paulina;
Pauline the Widow
- Memorial
- 26 January
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- Roman nobility, married to senator Toxotius.
Mother of five children including Saint Eustochium and Saint Blaesilla.
Widowed at age 32 in 379; she devoted her fortune and the rest of her life to spiritual development and care for the poor.
Friend of Saint Marcella, Saint Epiphanius and Saint Paulinus of Antioch.
Friend, spiritual student and supporter of Saint Jerome whom she met in 382; he later wrote her biography.
Pilgrim to the Holy Lands in 385.
She settled in Bethlehem in 396 where she built churches, a hospice, monastery and convent; she served as its first abbess.
- Born
- 5 May 347 at Rome
- Died
- 404 at Bethlehem of natural causes;
buried under the Church of the Nativity at Nazareth
- Patronage
- widows
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia, by Louis Saltet
Google Directory
Catholic Online
Letter of Paula and Eustochium to Marcella
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
New Catholic Dictionary
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