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History of the Franks

St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927

Book 1, 40. Of the Matron Melania

Melania, a noble matron dwelling in Rome, went of her piety to Jerusalem, leaving her son Urbanus at Rome. In such goodness and holiness did she walk in the sight of all men that she received from the inhabitants the name of Thecla.