Saint Lea

Saint Lea is a third century saint in the Roman Catholic Church on the authority of Jerome about whom little is definitively known. Jerome, in a letter to St. Marcella, said that she was a widow who retired to a Roman monastery, where she became the abbess. Jerome provides no biography for Lea, for he assumes that Marcella knows it, and concentrates instead upon her death.

In a parallel with Lazarus and Dives, Jerome writes:

He then compares her with a consul who had lived in wealth and would find himself in agony in the afterlife and exhorts Marcella to serve Jesus rather than the world.

Jerome's use of the adjective "blessed" is taken as sufficient evidence for Lea's veneration by the Roman Catholic Church, where her feast day is March 22.

References

* [http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint.php?n=185 Saint of the day] on Catholic News Agency

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