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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...
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version of Euclid's
Elements and his
commentaries on Ptolemy's Almagest.
Blaesilla,
Roman noblewoman (d. 384) ****guo,
Chinese Buddhist nun (d. 433) Sima...
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solid basis in fact.
Saints portal Biography portal Christianity portal Blaesilla Catherine of
Alexandria Christian monasticism Demiana Domnina of Syria...
- 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...
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wealthy Roman women,
including Paula and her
daughter Blaesilla. A
previously lively girl,
Blaesilla took
ascetism to the extreme, and
after she died, Jerome...
- "The
First Deadly Victim of
Anorexia Nervosa in
History Called Blaesilla.
Blaesilla, The
First Reported Case of Anorexia". Acta
Psychiatrica Belgica...
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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...
