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• Catholic Encyclopedia
St. Olympias, widow, deaconess, renowned for her almsgiving, and a staunch supporter of St. John Chrysostom. She died in 408.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11248b.htm

• Catholic Online
Biographical sketch of St. Olympias.
http://saints.catholic.org/saints/olympias.html

• Life of Saint Olympias the Deaconess
From "The Prologue from Ohrid," by St. Nikolai Velimirovitch.
http://www.angelfire.com/pa/deaconess/olympias.html

• Lives of the Saints
St. Olympias, Widow. From Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/OLYMPIAS.htm

• The Ecole Glossary
Biographical essay on St. Olympias the Deaconess, by Karen Rae Keck.
http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/olympias.html