A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Julia Mammea
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JULIA MAMMEA, Mother of Alexander Severus,
Had also equal genius and courage; and, above all, she educated her son for the throne, in the same manner as Fenelon afterwards educated the duke of Burgundy, rendering him at the same time a man of virtue and sensibility, Severus thought so highly of his mother, that he did nothing without her counsel, and paid more deference to it than to that of any other person. This princess having heard of Origen, wished to see him, and in the conferences they had together, conceived so high an opinion of Christianity, that she is supposed to have embraced it. She was murdered with her son, in Gaul, by the discontented soldiery.
Essay by M. Thomas, &c.