Paulina Beturia

Paulina Beturia was a Roman convert to Judaism (about the year 50), known under the name "Sarah," who, according to her Latin epitaph, was eighty-six years and six months old at the time of her death. For sixteen years she was a Jewess, a mother of the synagogues ("mater synagogarum") of the Campesian and Volumnian communities in Rome.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jewish Encyclopedia. 1901–1906.

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