Pulcheria and Her Sisters

It is said that God often showed the princess in many other matters what was about to happen, and that most of these things happened to her and her sisters as witnesses of God’s love. They all follow the same way of life. They are devoted to the priests and the houses of prayer, and generous to needy strangers and the poor. These sisters usually take their meals and their walks together, and spend their days and their nights in one another’s company, singing the praises of God. As is the custom with good women, they occupy themselves with weaving and similar work. Although they are princesses, born and brought up in palaces, they shun frivolity and idleness, which they think unworthy of anyone who professes virginity, and so they keep such laziness far from their own lives. For this reason the mercy of God is made plain and prevails on behalf of their house. For God gives the emperor increase in years and in government, and every plot and war raised against him has been overthrown of itself.