Therasia of Nola

Therasia (fl. 381 - 408–10) was a Christian aristocrat from Spain.^[1] Through her marriage to Paulinus of Nola, she encouraged his conversion to Christianity and was influential in the early church, co-writing epistles and co-patron of the cult of St Felix with her husband.^[2] She was St Augustine's first female correspondent and was praised by him for her holiness. Augustine gave Therasia and Paulinus the gift of a loaf of bread, potentially for use in the Eucharist.

^ Knight, G R (2005). "Friendship & Erotics in the Late Antique verse-epistle". Rheinisches Museum für Philogie: 383. JSTOR 41234645.
^ Wieser, Veronika (2016). ""Like a safe tower on a steady rock". Widows, wives and mothers in the ascetic elites of Late Antiquity". Časopis Filozofskog Fakulteta, Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile U Puli. 14: 10.

[1] Knight, G R (2005). "Friendship & Erotics in the Late Antique verse-epistle". Rheinisches Museum für Philogie: 383. JSTOR 41234645.

[2] Wieser, Veronika (2016). ""Like a safe tower on a steady rock". Widows, wives and mothers in the ascetic elites of Late Antiquity". Časopis Filozofskog Fakulteta, Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile U Puli. 14: 10.

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