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3 unusual facts about Saint Marcella


Saint Marcella

It was at the home of Marcella that Jerome first met Paula, a devoted and scholarly woman who would become his long-time intellectual counterpart.

Marcella was in her late seventies in 410 when the Goths, led by Alaric, pillaged Rome.

Apparently moved by God's to compassion, the soldiers directed Marcella and her pupil, Principia, to the church of St. Paul, which had been set up as a sanctuary by Alaric.



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