ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 26th of January WELCOME! SAINT PAULA OF ROME, WIDOW This illustrious pattern of widows surpassed all other Roman ladies in riches, birth, and the endowments of mind. She was born on May 5, 347. The blood of the Scipio’s, the Gracchi, and Paulus Æmilius, was centered in her by her mother Blesilla. Her father derived his pedigree from Agamemnon, and her husband Toxotius his from Iulus and Ænas. By him she had a son also called Toxotius, and four daughters, namely, Blesilla, Paulina, Eustochium, and Rufina. A BRIGHT PATTERN OF VIRTUE She shone a bright pattern of virtue in the married state, and both she and her husband edified Rome by their good example; but her virtue was not without its alloy: a certain degree of the love of the world being almost inseparable from honours and high life. ATTACHMENTS TO THE COMFORTS AND OPINIONS OF THE WORLD She did not discern the secret attachments of her heart, no...