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The author sketches the historical events concerning six women belonging to the Early Church: Byzantine Empresses Pulcheria and Irene; Paula and Eustochium, who established a female monastery in Bethlehem; the Virgin Macrina, and the deaconess Olympia. Like many other women, they too played a very remarkable and even determining role for the Church’s life and theological development. In such a way,...