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No connection. Galla was the daughter of a senator, known to Gregory I who
consecrated herself to a religious life in young widowhood.
Jo Ann
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> > Galla (d. c. 560) Galla was a noblewoman of Rome, widowed at a young
age.
> > She became a recluse, living in a cell near St. Peter's, and avoided
> > unwelcome attention from men by disguising herself in men's clothing and
a
> > beard. According to later legend, an angel brough Galla a miraculous
> > portrait of the Virgin Mary, which later averted the plague.
>
> This sounds suspiciously like the Empress Galla Placidia, who was
> eventually buried in one of the mausolea attached to the transept of
> St Peter's and who was quite spectacularly a widow. Does anyone know
> if there is any connection?
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
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