What Does the Name Scholastica Mean
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Scholastica Name Meaning
Late RomanFrom a Late Latin name which was derived from scholasticus meaning "rhetorician, orator". Saint Scholastica was a 6th-century Benedictine abbess, the sister of Saint Benedict of Nursia.
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