A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Roseres, (Isabella de Joya, or de)
ROSERES (ISABELLA DE JOYA, or DE), a Spanish Lady, of the 16th Century,
"It is related that she preached in the cathedral of Barcelona, to the admiration of a crouded audience. (I suppose the prelate, who allowed of such a novelty, was of opinion that the apostle's injunction, in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, against women speaking in the church, admits of some exceptions, equally with that in the first Epistle to Timothy, against their teaching; it being certain, from the Acts, that Priscilla, a fellow labourer with the same apostle, instructed Apollos in the doctrine of the gospel). Afterwards Isabella went to Rome, in the pontificate of Paul III. She solved many knotty points in the books of the subtle Scotus, before the whole college of cardinals, and highly to their satisfaction. But an honour incomparably greater is, her having, in that capital, brought over to the Christian faith, a considerable number of Jews."