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Marcellina was born in Trier, Gaul around the year 330 as a member of a Catholic family. Her father served as Praetorian prefect of Gaul.
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Marcellina Marcellina
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She devoted her life to the practice of prayer and asceticism. Her feast day is July 17. While still young, she traveled to the family home in Rome, and devoted herself to the practice of piety and asceticism.
On Christmas Day, probably in 353, she received the veil of consecrated virginity from Pope Liberius.
This life chosen by Saint Marcellina is one of great sacrifice. Honored as a saint, she was buried in the crypt under the altar of the Ambrosian Basilica in Milan.
Ambrose dedicated his work on virginity, written in 377, Libri III de virginibus ad Marcellinam to her. The Institute Saint Marcellina was established in 1955 in Hampstead, London in honor of Marcellina herself.
The institute, run by the Sisters of Saint Marcellina, is a residence for foreign students.
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397 (aged 70)