Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume II/Sozomen/Book IX/Chapter 3
Chapter III.—The Virtues of Pulcheria; Her Sisters.
It is said that God frequently in many other cases revealed to the princess what was about to happen, and that the most occurred to her and her sisters as witnesses of the Divine love.[1]
They all pursue the same mode of life; they are sedulous about the
priests and the houses of prayer, and are munificent to needy strangers
and the poor. These sisters generally take their meals and walks
together, and pass their days and their nights in company, singing the
praises of God. As is the custom with exemplary women, they employ
themselves in weaving and in similar occupations. Although princesses,
born and educated in palaces, they avoid levity and idleness, which
they think unworthy of any who profess virginity, so they put such
indolence far from their own life. For this reason the mercy of God is
manifested and is conquering in behalf of their house; for He increases
the emperor in years and government; every conspiracy and war concocted
against him has been overthrown of itself.
Footnotes
edit- ↑ This chapter is independent. For an opposite estimate, see Eunap. Fragm. ii. 70, 71, and the allegations in Suidas, s.v.