PRISCILLA, or Prisca, a a Christian Woman, very well known in the Acts, and in St. Paul’s Epistles. She is sometimes taken Notice of there before her Husband Aquila. They were at Corinth1 when St. Paul come thither, and had the Happiness of entertaining him at their House, where he lodg’d a good while, because St. Paul and Aquila work’d at the same Business, which was that of making Tents of Leather, for the Use of the Army. Aquila and Priscilla left Corinth with St. Paul, and came along with him to Ephesus.2 Here they dwelt for some Time, and preach’d the Gospel. Their House was so well regulated, that St. Paul calls it a Rom. xvi. 5. 2 Tim. iv. 19. In the Year of Christ 65.Church. From thence they went to Rome, where they were when St. Paul writ his Epistle to the Romans, in the Year of Christ 58, and he salutes them first of all, and with great Commendations. They return’d into Asia some time afterwards, and St. Paul writing to Timothy, desires him to salute them on his Account. ‘Tis thought they died here, and the Latin Martyrologies observe their Memory on the eighth of July. The Greeks celebrate the Feast of Aquila on the fourteenth of the same Month.
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