St. Marcella, a Model of Virtue
Catholic Saints
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St. Marcella of Rome is an early Christian saint and I named my daughter after her. St. Jerome had a number of like women correspondence even got driven out of Rome because of rumors about how many women correspondents he had. So, you know, crutchy drum. In this lengthy letter he writes about Marcella to a kind of pupil or fellow monastic named Princhipia about her praising her, praising her life after she died. And it's really moving. It was a tremendous blessing for me because I did not know very much about St. MarcellA but Dr. Klein gave me the great privilege of learning about her.
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