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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.

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

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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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