SHE was a rich Roman lady; after the death of her husband she mortified
her flesh by wearing rough sackcloth, passed whole nights in prayer, and
by humility seemed every one's menial servant. She died in 384, and is
honored on this day in the Roman Martyrology. St. Jerom makes an elegant
comparison between her death and that of Praetextatus, a heathen, who was
that year appointed consul, but snatched away by death at the same time.
See St. Jerom, Ep. 20, (olim 24,) to Marcella, t. 4, p. 51, Ed. Ben.