142. Palladius (Hist. Lausiac. c. 136 in Vit. Patrum, p. 776
[p. 230, ed. Paris, Pallad. 1555]), the original author of
this anecdote, had conversed with the damsel, who in her old
age still remembered with pleasure so pious and honourable a
connection. I cannot indulge the delicacy of Baronius,
Valesius, Tillemont, etc, who almost reject a story so
unworthy, as they deem it, of the gravity of ecclesiastical
history.