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Feastday: December 27

Fabiola was a wealthy Roman Patrician of the famous Fabia family. She was for a time a member of St. Jerome's circle but fell away, divorced her husband for his dissolute life, and remarried. On the death of her second husband, she returned to the Church, devoted herself to charitable works and aiding churches, and built the first Christian public hospital in the West, where she personally tended the sick. She visited Jerome at Bethlehem in 395, supported him in his controversy with Patriarch John of Jerusalem, decided not to join Paula's community, and on her return to Rome, continued her charitable work, opening a hospice for poor pilgrims at Porto with St. Pammachius. Jerome wrote two treatises for her and is the source of most of our information about her. Her feast day is December 27th.

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richard dias
1 month ago
As a rule Catholic church does not encourage divorce. However just like others, we also have families where husband and wife do not meet eye to eye. This should not prevent those interested in serving the sick and doing charitable work in the name of Christ. As Christ himself has said. In heaven bodies have no place. There is place only for pure in heart.
ernest suarez
10 months ago
how does st fabiola teachings relate to our health care system right now
Faviola T.
1 year ago
Things were different in the 4th century. Priests were allowed to marry for a while until the 11th century. In present times, a man or woman can request their marriage to be annulled by the Catholic Church. Perhaps people confuse modern doctrine of what is acceptable with the early Catholic church.

I love St. Fabiola!!!!
Andy Ralphs
1 year ago
How does the church explain the fact that this saint was a divorcee, but that the church does not approve of divorce?

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