who risk their lives as nurses", from Ancient Greek: παραβαλανεῖς) or Parabolani (from παραβολᾶνοι or παράβολοι) were the members of a brotherhood, who...

nurses were also the primary caregivers. In the 3rd century, men in the Parabolani brotherhood created a hospital and provided nursing care. The Codex Theodosianus...

their knees to beg Dioscorus for mercy to Flavian and also Alexandrine Parabolani, that some signed a blank paper, and that others did not sign at all,...

issued an edict that removed the authority of Cyril of Alexandria over the parabolani. In 419 he held the consulship; after this year, four of his servants...

"Annales", ad an. 336, IV (Lucca, 1739), 295; cf. VII (Lucas, 1741), 869 "Parabolani" Michael, "Gesch. des deutschen Volkes", I (1897), 146, 150, sq; Janssen...