Note 043 The females of Constantinople distinguished themselves by their enmity or their attachment to Chrysostom. Three noble and opulent widows - Marsa, Castricia, and Eugraphia - were the leaders of the persecution (Pallad. Dialog. tom. xiii. p. 14 [c. 4, p. 35, ed. Paris, 1680]). It was impossible that they should forgive a preacher who reproached their affectation to conceal, by the ornaments of dress, their age and ugliness (Pallad. p. 27). Olympias, by equal zeal, displayed in a more pious cause, has obtained the title of saint. See Tillemont, Mem. Eccles. tom. xi. p. 416-440.

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