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Saint Fabiola

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Fabiola (Italian: Santa Fabiola, also known as Fabiola of Rome)^[1] was a physician and Roman matron of rank of the company of noble Roman women who, under the influence of the Church FatherJerome, gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work. She is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic church, being commemorated on 27 December.

Early life

Fabiola belonged to the patrician Roman family of the gensFabia. She had been married to a man who led so vicious a life that to live with him was impossible. She obtained a divorce from him according to Roman law and, contrary to the ordinances of the Christian Church, she entered upon a second union before the death of her first husband.^[2]

At the time of Jerome's stay at Rome (382–84), Fabiola was not one of the ascetic circle which gathered around him. It was only later that, upon the death of her second consort, she decided to enter upon a life of renunciation and labour for others.

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Fabiola, St.

Early Christian benefactress and friend of St. jerome; d. Rome, 399. She came to the wealthy Roman nobility descended from Julius Maximus and had an extremely passionate nature. Fabiola divorced her first husband because of his vices. To protect herself, she took a second husband, separating herself from Church communion until, as Jerome asserted, the death of her second husband and her public penitence at the church of the Lateran on Easter eve in the presence of the bishop and clergy. She sold her possessions, gave to the poor, and supported monasteries in Italy. In 395 she journeyed to Bethlehem with her relative Oceanus, staying there with SS. paula and eustochium.

When the controversy over origenism divided Jerome and his friends from rufinus of aquileia and Melania, efforts were made to draw Fabiola to the cause of Bp. john of jerusalem, who supported Rufinus (Jerome, Cont. Ruf. 3.14); but they proved unsuccessful. Fabiola eagerly attached herself to the teachings of Jerome (Epist. 77), who wrote two dissertations for her: one, on the mystical meaning of

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Fabiola (d. 399 CE)

Early Christian saint and founder of the first public hospital in Rome. Name variations: Saint Fabiola. Pronunciation: Fab-ee-OH-la; date of birth unknown; died in 399 ce; married twice to men unnamed in sources.

Made public recantation of sins after the death of her second husband; donated large sums of money to the poor and religious institutions and founded a house for the sick in Rome; traveled to Jerusalem (395) and studied Scripture with St. Jerome; returned to Rome at onset of Huns; founded a house for pilgrims in Portus.

Fabiola lived in the first century of legal, state-sanctioned Christianity in the Roman Empire. This period, in which Christianity was fused with traditional Roman and pre-Roman customs and beliefs, was one of great social change in habits and viewpoints of all classes in the empire. Fabiola appears as one of a number of aristocratic women who personified this transition in the renunciation of the traditional (as far as our sources let us see) wifely role of the Roman woman.

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