ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 31st of January WELCOME! SAINT MARCELLA, WIDOW Saint Marcella is styled by Saint Jerome the glory of the Roman ladies. Having lost her husband in the seventh month of her marriage, she rejected the suit of Cerealis the consul, uncle of Gallus Caesar, and resolved to imitate the lives of the ascetics of the East. HER HOLY LIFE She abstained from wine and flesh, employed all her time in pious reading, prayer, and visiting the churches of the apostles and martyrs, and never spoke with any man alone. ROME WAS IN A SHORT TIME FILLED WITH MONASTERIES Her example was followed by many virgins of the first quality, who put themselves under her direction, and Rome was in a short time filled with monasteries. ELEVEN LETTERS OF ST JEROME We have eleven letters of St Jerome to her in answer to her religious queries. THE GOTHS PLUNDERED ROME The Goths under Alaric plundered Rome in 410. St Marce...