Therasia of Nola
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Therasia was a Christian aristocrat from Spain. Through her marriage to Paulinus of Nola, she encouraged his conversion to Christianity and was influential in the early church, co-writing epistles and
Cimitile tomb of Felix of Nola
Jerome
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Jerome of Stridon, also known as Hieronymus, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.
Therasia of Nola
…at Nola. It has been suggested that from this point on Therasia and Paulinus' marriage became platonic and they focused on a 'marriage of friendship'. Jerome of Stridon encouraged them in this self-denial through his correspondence with them. Religious men in the late antique period wrote letters (epistles…
Saint Jerome by Matthias Stom, 1635
St. Jerome in His Study (1480), by Domenico Ghirlandaio
St Jerome in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
St. Jerome in the Desert, by Giovanni Bellini (1505)