[1] She was appointed by Caesarius, who issued a revised rule for the convent on 22 June 534 granting the nuns the right to elect their abbess in the future.
[6] Cyprian describes her abbacy thus: "Her work with her companions is so outstanding that in the midst of psalms and fasts, vigils and readings, the virgins of Christ beautifully copy out the holy books, with their mother herself as teacher.
"[7] Sometime between 552 and 557, she sent a copy of Caesarius's rule for nuns, the Regula virginum, to Queen Radegund, who used it for her own foundation of Holy Cross Abbey in Poitiers.
She quotes extensively from a letter of Caesarius to Caesaria the Elder containing the same ideas eventually put into the rule.
[15] Although Caesaria's letter is a valuable survival for its "articulate, intelligent, strong" voice,[17] the extensive quotation of scripture "to the modern mind ... appear overdone to the point where they weaken the overall effect rather than enhance it.