Blaesilla, also known as Blesilla (364–384), was a Roman widow and disciple of Jerome. She was born into a wealthy senatorial family in Rome, the eldest...

were such as the widows Lea, Marcella, and Paula, and Paula's daughters Blaesilla and Eustochium. The resulting inclination of these women towards the monastic...

was married to the nobleman Toxotius, with whom she had four daughters, Blaesilla, Paulina, Eustochium, and Rufina. She also had a boy, also named Toxotius...

90 AD found in Roman Martyrology Birinus c. 600 3 December 649 or 650 Blaesilla 364 384 Blaise 200s 316 found in Roman Martyrology Blandina c. 162 177...

version of Euclid's Elements and his commentaries on Ptolemy's Almagest. Blaesilla, Roman noblewoman (d. 384) Huiguo, Chinese Buddhist nun (d. 433) Sima...

solid basis in fact. Saints portal Biography portal Christianity portal Blaesilla Catherine of Alexandria Christian monasticism Demiana Domnina of Syria...

austere a life as the fathers of the desert. Eustochium had three sisters, Blaesilla, Paulina, and Rufina, and a brother, Toxotius. When Jerome came to Rome...

as has Chaucer scholar Marion Turner in The Wife of Bath: A Biography. Blaesilla, on whom the tale is partly based. Bacon in the fabliaux – a figurative...

wealthy Roman women, including Paula and her daughter Blaesilla. A previously lively girl, Blaesilla took ascetism to the extreme, and after she died, Jerome...

(approximate date) Wu Di (or Liu Yu), Chinese emperor of Liu Song (d. 422) 364 Blaesilla, Roman noblewoman (d. 384) Huiguo, Chinese Buddhist nun (d. 433) Sima...