foundation · 378 · Jerusalem
She built the women's house and Rufinus of Aquileia the men's, on the Mount of Olives, and they ran them together for twenty-seven years. It was a hostel as much as a monastery — Palladius says anyone travelling to the holy places could stop there — and it had a library, which is why Rufinus could do the translating he did. The pair of them are also one half of the quarrel that split the Latin ascetic world: when Rufinus translated Origen's On First Principles and softened it, Jerome, who had been his friend since school, attacked him, and the two houses on the Olivet were on the other side from the two at Bethlehem this dataset holds under Paula. Nothing in the sources suggests the women's house took much notice.
To build somewhere on the Mount of Olives where the ascetic life and the pilgrim traffic could both be housed.
Twenty-seven years of a double monastery above Jerusalem, a library, and the friendship that later broke over Origen.