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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Anglican nuns, Christian abbesses, Eastern Orthodox nuns, Roman Catholic nuns, Pulcheria, Isolina Ferre, Andrea Jaeger, Rosalie Rendu, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Marianna O'Gallagher, Kassia, Tsarevna Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Maria Skobtsova, Katerina Lemmel, Princess Ileana of Romania, Theodora Raoulaina, Desert Mothers, Margaret Anna Cusack, Henrietta Stockdale, Maria Palaiologina, Mother Irini, Simonida, Egeria, New York Foundling, St. Nicholas of Tolentine's Church, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, Mary of the Divine Heart, Sister Vincenza Taffarel, Eustochium, Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden, Helvig of Schleswig, Infanta Branca, Viscountess of Huelgas, Theodora Palaiologina, Cecily Bodenham, Anna of Trebizond, Herrad of Landsberg, Byzantine Discalced Carmelites, Cynthia L. Mahoney, Convent of Poor Clares at Gravelines, Macrina the Younger, Sister Frances Dominica Ritchie, Elizabeth Tyldesley, Anna Ali, Mother Joseph, Sister Ignatia, Ioveta of Bethany, Mary O'Connell, Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba, Anne Ayres, Adela and Irmina, Marie Keyrouz, Xenia Shestova, Agapetae, Eleanor Carey, Mariam Baouardy, Mary Frances Clarke, Black Veil, Pharailde, Guda, Landrada, Apronia, List of former Roman Catholic nuns, Emily Ayckbown, Religious Dower, Anne-Madeleine Remuzat. Excerpt: Aelia Pulcheria (January 19, 398 or 399 - 453) was the daughter of Eastern Roman Emperor Arcadius and Empress Aelia Eudoxia. She was the second child born to Arcadius and Eudoxia. Her oldest sister was Flaccilla born in 397, but is assumed she had died young. Her younger siblings were Theodosius II, the future emperor and Marina, both born in 401. When her father Arcadius died in 408, her brother Theodosius II was made Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, at seven years old. On July 4, 414 a fifteen year old Pulcheria proclaimed herself regent over her brot...
