Makrina the Younger: Quiet Strength

Macrina the Younger
About this Episode
Harmonia invites you into the gentle dawns and shared labors of Makrina the Younger-eldest of the Cappadocian siblings, architect of a hidden sanctuary
circa
360

The House on the Aventine

Marcella of Rome
About this Episode
A widow's Roman household became a center of scriptural study forty years before Jerome arrived, and outlasted him.
circa
380

The Woman Behind the Word

Paula of Rome
About this Episode
Paula of Rome funded Jerome's Latin Vulgate, setting in motion a thousand years of argument about who owns the sacred word.
circa
385

Monica: The Unfinished Thread

Saint Monica
About this Episode
Saint Monica's persistence and her son Augustine's real search through Manichaeism reveal how faith is built, not simply inherited.
circa
387

The Letter That Withheld a Name

Eustochium
About this Episode
Eustochium answered a deadly attack on her monastery not with vengeance, but with an appeal to legitimate process.
circa
417

The Rule She Wrote Herself

Clare of Assisi
About this Episode
Clare of Assisi defied an arranged marriage to found the Poor Clares and author the first monastic Rule written by a woman.
circa
1228

The Woman Who Was Heard Across an Ocean

María de Jesús de Ágreda
About this Episode
Though she never left her cell, Mara de Jess de greda became a spiritual presence across cultures, continents, and centuries.
circa
1640
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