Jerome’s request to Paula, Letter 108.34

Intercession source · Intercession requested · 404 CE

About this date: A broad attributed range; literary setting is not historical verification.

In the closing of a memorial letter to the deceased Paula, Jerome asks her to aid his old age with her prayers and connects her faith and works to Christ and His presence. This is actual second-person petitionary language in a memorial letter.

Reception

patristic

Sources and further reading

Letter 108 to Eustochium (primary)
Address to Paula and the dated memorial letter.

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