Eustochium combines the Greek eu (well) and stochos (aim) — "good aim, success." **Saint Eustochium (368-419)** was the **daughter of Paula** — Jerome's noblewoman patroness — who followed her mother to **found a monastery in Bethlehem alongside Jerome**. **Jerome dedicated his Vulgate translation of the Psalms to her**; she succeeded her mother as abbess.
Featured throughout Jerome's letters.
Eustochium reduces to three — the number of Bethlehem abbess.