A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Eustachium

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EUSTACHIUM,

Daughter of Paula, a Roman lady of ancient family, was learned in Greek and Hebrew, as well as in the Latin language, so that she could read Hebrew psalms fluently, and comment ably upon them. She was many years a disciple of St. Jerome, and followed him in his journeys to different places. He speaks of her in high terms in his epistles, and in the life of St. Paula. She lived in a monastery at Bethlehem, till she was forced from it by a kind of persecution said to have been excited by the Pelagians. She died about 419.