(ABOUT A.D. 530.)
[Gallican Martyrologies. Her history from the life of S. Caesarius
of Arles, her brother, by his disciple, Cyprian.]
S. Caesaria was the superior of a convent of religious women, erected by
her brother, S. Caesarius, at Arles. When, in 507, the Franks and
Burgundians, under Alaric, had been defeated by Clovis, Theodoric
invaded the south of Gaul from Italy, and besieged the city, and
battered down the convent which had been erected for S. Caesaria. When
tranquillity was re-established, Caesarius rebuilt the monastery, and
called his sister from Marseilles to inhabit it. The rule of S. Caesaria,
drawn up by her brother, exists, and is published by the Bollandists.