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48  from the painting of a blind woman, than from his master." She taught her art to her three sisters.

of Anicius Probus, who was a Roman consul, in 371, with the emperor Gratian. She rendered herself illustrious by her understanding, and her piety. St. Augustin, Chrysostom, and Jerome, have all praised her in the highest manner. She composed a life of our Saviour, by putting together divers lines and passages of Virgil, with which she formed what the Latins called Centos, a sort of composition with more conceit than merit attached to it.

a husband with whom she had lived seven years, she devoted herself to the service of God, by prayers and fastings, night and day, in the temple, which she never left. When the Saviour of the world was there presented an infant, she announced his greatness; and joined her public testimony of his mission to that of Simeon. She died in the course of the same year.

eldest daughter of Francis II. duke of Brittany, who had no male heirs, an alliance with her was an object