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Eustochium (c. 368 – September 28, 419 or 420), born Eustochium Julia at Rome '''as a high ranking member of the community, specifically the Julian clan.'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=St. Paula and St. Eustochium in Art |url=https://www.christianiconography.info/eustochium.html |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=www.christianiconography.info}}</ref> She is also venerated as a saint and was an early Desert Mother. Eustochium was the daughter of Paula of Rome and the third of four daughters of the Roman Senator Toxotius, for whom Jerome made a number of disputable claims of ancestry.[1] [[Saint Jerome (disambiguation)|'''Jerome''']]<ref>{{Citation |title=Saint Jerome (disambiguation) |date=2022-02-17 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint_Jerome_(disambiguation)&oldid=1072436738 |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2023-04-16 |language=en}}</ref> '''was a church father in early Christian history |
Eustochium (c. 368 – September 28, 419 or 420), born Eustochium Julia at Rome '''as a high ranking member of the community, specifically the Julian clan.'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=St. Paula and St. Eustochium in Art |url=https://www.christianiconography.info/eustochium.html |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=www.christianiconography.info}}</ref> She is also venerated as a saint and was an early Desert Mother. Eustochium was the daughter of Paula of Rome and the third of four daughters of the Roman Senator Toxotius, for whom Jerome made a number of disputable claims of ancestry.[1] [[Saint Jerome (disambiguation)|'''Jerome''']]<ref>{{Citation |title=Saint Jerome (disambiguation) |date=2022-02-17 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint_Jerome_(disambiguation)&oldid=1072436738 |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2023-04-16 |language=en}}</ref> '''was a church father in early Christian history who is well known for translating the Holy Bible into Latin and encouraging the practice of [[asceticism]]'''. After the death of her husband around 380 Paula and her daughter Eustochium lived in Rome as austere a life as the fathers of the desert. Eustochium had three sisters, Blaesilla, Paulina, and Rufina, and a brother, Toxotius.[2] |
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When Jerome came to Rome from Palestine in 382, they put themselves under his spiritual '''and educational''' guidance. Hymettius, an uncle of Eustochium, and his wife Praetextata tried to persuade the youthful Eustochium to give up her austere life and enjoy the pleasures of the world, but all their attempts were futile. About the year 384 she made a vow of perpetual virginity, on which occasion Jerome addressed to her his celebrated letter De custodia virginitatis (Ep. xxii in P.L., XXII, 394–425). A year later Jerome returned to Palestine and soon after was followed by Paula and Eustochium.[2] |
When Jerome came to Rome from Palestine in 382, they put themselves under his spiritual '''and educational''' guidance. Hymettius, an uncle of Eustochium, and his wife Praetextata tried to persuade the youthful Eustochium to give up her austere life and enjoy the pleasures of the world, but all their attempts were futile. About the year 384 she made a vow of perpetual virginity, on which occasion Jerome addressed to her his celebrated letter De custodia virginitatis (Ep. xxii in P.L., XXII, 394–425). A year later Jerome returned to Palestine and soon after was followed by Paula and Eustochium.[2] |
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Eustochium spoke Latin and Classical Greek with equal ease and was able to read the scriptures in the Hebrew text. Many of Jerome's Biblical commentaries owe their existence to her influence and to her he dedicated his commentaries on the prophets Isaias and Ezekiel. |
Eustochium spoke Latin and Classical Greek with equal ease and was able to read the scriptures in the Hebrew text. Many of Jerome's Biblical commentaries owe their existence to her influence and to her he dedicated his commentaries on the prophets Isaias and Ezekiel. |
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The letters which Jerome wrote for her instruction and spiritual advancement are, according to his own testimony,[3] very numerous. '''Jerome wrote Epitaph on Saint Paula, or Letter 108, honoring a friend and comrade in the form of a letter to Eustochium.'''<ref>{{Cite book |last= |
The letters which Jerome wrote for her instruction and spiritual advancement are, according to his own testimony,[3] very numerous. '''Jerome wrote Epitaph on Saint Paula, or Letter 108, honoring a friend and comrade in the form of a letter to Eustochium.'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohick, Hughes |first=Lynn H., Amy Brown |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1349535407 |title=Christian women in the patristic world : their influence, authority, and legacy in the second through fifth centuries |isbn=978-1-4934-1021-7 |oclc=1349535407}}</ref> '''Jerome's letter to Eustochium could be considered slander towards women. One modern scholar pointed to Jerome's opinions on ideal sexuality and body restrictions for women.'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=S. |first=Wiesen, David |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/248473501 |title=St. Jerome as a Satirist. A study in Christian Latin Thought and Letters |date=1966 |publisher=Cornell Univ. Press |oclc=248473501}}</ref> '''However, his letters to Eustochium did not direct slander towards her, but rather praised her for her perpetual virginity.'''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Miller |first=Patricia Cox |date=1993 |title=The Blazing Body: Ascetic Desire in Jerome's Letter to Eustochium |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/earl.0.0133 |journal=Journal of Early Christian Studies |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=21–45 |doi=10.1353/earl.0.0133 |issn=1086-3184}}</ref> After the death of Paula in 404, Eustochium assumed the direction of the nunneries.[2] Her task was a difficult one on account of the impoverished condition of the temporal affairs which was brought about by the lavish almsgiving of Paula. Jerome provided his encouragement and prudent advice. |
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In 417, a crowd of ruffians attacked and pillaged the monasteries of Bethlehem, destroyed one of them by fire, besides killing and maltreating some of the residents. It is alleged[4] that this was instigated by John II, the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Pelagians against whom Jerome had written what were considered sharp polemics. Both Jerome and Eustochium informed Pope Innocent I by letter of the occurrence, who severely reproved the patriarch for having permitted the outrage. Eustochium died shortly after and was succeeded in the supervision of the convents by her niece, the younger Paula. Eustochius of Tour might have been her nephew, and further lateral descendants may include Perpetuus and Volusianus.[5] The Catholic Church celebrates her feast on 28 September. |
In 417, a crowd of ruffians attacked and pillaged the monasteries of Bethlehem, destroyed one of them by fire, besides killing and maltreating some of the residents. It is alleged[4] that this was instigated by John II, the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Pelagians against whom Jerome had written what were considered sharp polemics. Both Jerome and Eustochium informed Pope Innocent I by letter of the occurrence, who severely reproved the patriarch for having permitted the outrage. Eustochium died shortly after and was succeeded in the supervision of the convents by her niece, the younger Paula. Eustochius of Tour might have been her nephew, and further lateral descendants may include Perpetuus and Volusianus.[5] The Catholic Church celebrates her feast on 28 September. |
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Christian Women in the Patristic World<ref>{{Cite book |last= |
Christian Women in the Patristic World<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohick, Hughes |first=Lynn H., Amy Brown |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1349535407 |title=Christian women in the patristic world : their influence, authority, and legacy in the second through fifth centuries |isbn=978-1-4934-1021-7 |oclc=1349535407}}</ref> |
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Eustochium (c. 368 – September 28, 419 or 420), born Eustochium Julia at Rome as a high ranking member of the community, specifically the Julian clan.[1] She is also venerated as a saint and was an early Desert Mother. Eustochium was the daughter of Paula of Rome and the third of four daughters of the Roman Senator Toxotius, for whom Jerome made a number of disputable claims of ancestry.[1] Jerome[2] was a church father in early Christian history who is well known for translating the Holy Bible into Latin and encouraging the practice of asceticism. After the death of her husband around 380 Paula and her daughter Eustochium lived in Rome as austere a life as the fathers of the desert. Eustochium had three sisters, Blaesilla, Paulina, and Rufina, and a brother, Toxotius.[2]
When Jerome came to Rome from Palestine in 382, they put themselves under his spiritual and educational guidance. Hymettius, an uncle of Eustochium, and his wife Praetextata tried to persuade the youthful Eustochium to give up her austere life and enjoy the pleasures of the world, but all their attempts were futile. About the year 384 she made a vow of perpetual virginity, on which occasion Jerome addressed to her his celebrated letter De custodia virginitatis (Ep. xxii in P.L., XXII, 394–425). A year later Jerome returned to Palestine and soon after was followed by Paula and Eustochium.[2]
Eustochium and Paula knew Jerome ever since his arrival in Rome in 382.[3] In 386 they accompanied Jerome on his journey to Egypt, where they visited the hermits of the Nitrian Desert in order to study and afterward imitate their mode of life. In the fall of the same year they returned to Palestine and settled permanently at Bethlehem. Paula and Eustochium at once began to erect four monasteries and a hospice near the spot where Christ was born. While the erection of the monasteries was in process (386–9) they lived in a small building in the neighborhood. One of the monasteries was occupied by monks and put under the direction of Jerome. The three other monasteries were taken by Paula and Eustochium and the numerous virgins that flocked around them. The monastic community encompassed separate quarters for men and women.[4] The three convents, which were under the supervision of Paula, had only one oratory, where all the virgins met several times daily for prayer and the liturgy of the hours. Jerome testifies (Ep. 308) that Eustochium and Paula performed the most menial services. Much of their time they spent in the study of scripture under the direction of Jerome.
Eustochium spoke Latin and Classical Greek with equal ease and was able to read the scriptures in the Hebrew text. Many of Jerome's Biblical commentaries owe their existence to her influence and to her he dedicated his commentaries on the prophets Isaias and Ezekiel.
The letters which Jerome wrote for her instruction and spiritual advancement are, according to his own testimony,[3] very numerous. Jerome wrote Epitaph on Saint Paula, or Letter 108, honoring a friend and comrade in the form of a letter to Eustochium.[5] Jerome's letter to Eustochium could be considered slander towards women. One modern scholar pointed to Jerome's opinions on ideal sexuality and body restrictions for women.[6] However, his letters to Eustochium did not direct slander towards her, but rather praised her for her perpetual virginity.[7] After the death of Paula in 404, Eustochium assumed the direction of the nunneries.[2] Her task was a difficult one on account of the impoverished condition of the temporal affairs which was brought about by the lavish almsgiving of Paula. Jerome provided his encouragement and prudent advice.
In 417, a crowd of ruffians attacked and pillaged the monasteries of Bethlehem, destroyed one of them by fire, besides killing and maltreating some of the residents. It is alleged[4] that this was instigated by John II, the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Pelagians against whom Jerome had written what were considered sharp polemics. Both Jerome and Eustochium informed Pope Innocent I by letter of the occurrence, who severely reproved the patriarch for having permitted the outrage. Eustochium died shortly after and was succeeded in the supervision of the convents by her niece, the younger Paula. Eustochius of Tour might have been her nephew, and further lateral descendants may include Perpetuus and Volusianus.[5] The Catholic Church celebrates her feast on 28 September.
References
"St. Paula and St. Eustochium in Art"
Jerome, Chrysostum and Friends
Christian Women in the Patristic World[8]
- ^ "St. Paula and St. Eustochium in Art". www.christianiconography.info. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ^ "Saint Jerome (disambiguation)", Wikipedia, 2022-02-17, retrieved 2023-04-16
- ^ 1938-2021., Clark, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), (1982). Jerome, Chrysostom, and friends : essays and translations. Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-88946-542-8. OCLC 827946924.
{{cite book}}:|last=has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Brooklyn Museum: Eustochium". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
- ^ Cohick, Hughes, Lynn H., Amy Brown. Christian women in the patristic world : their influence, authority, and legacy in the second through fifth centuries. ISBN 978-1-4934-1021-7. OCLC 1349535407.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ S., Wiesen, David (1966). St. Jerome as a Satirist. A study in Christian Latin Thought and Letters. Cornell Univ. Press. OCLC 248473501.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Miller, Patricia Cox (1993). "The Blazing Body: Ascetic Desire in Jerome's Letter to Eustochium". Journal of Early Christian Studies. 1 (1): 21–45. doi:10.1353/earl.0.0133. ISSN 1086-3184.
- ^ Cohick, Hughes, Lynn H., Amy Brown. Christian women in the patristic world : their influence, authority, and legacy in the second through fifth centuries. ISBN 978-1-4934-1021-7. OCLC 1349535407.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)