Eunice

Eunice is named once in the New Testament, identified as the mother of Timothy and the daughter of Lois. She belongs to a household where faith has passed across three generations.

Mother of Timothy

Paul recalls Timothy's spiritual inheritance through his mother and grandmother: "having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded, in you also" (2 Ti 1:5). The verse places her in the chain of unfeigned faith — first in Lois, then in Eunice, and now in Timothy — and presents her household as the seedbed of the faith Paul finds in his protégé.