Asella

Venerable Asella was a virgin of Rome from a noble and wealthy family, perhaps the sister of Saint Marcella. She became a nun in Rome at the age of ten, lived many years in ascetic labour and became abbess, "the mother of many virgins". Blessed Jerome, whose disciple and friend she was, praises her in his writings as "a flower of the Lord". She reposed around the year 406.

She is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 6 December (new style, Western calendar).