FAUSTINA, ANNIA GALERIA, the younger, daughter of Antoninus Pius, and wife of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. She is accused by Dio Cassius and Capitolinus of gross profligacy, and was reputed to have instigated the revolt of Avidius Cassius against her husband, but this may be untrue, as he was always devoted to her. She died in A.D. or 176 (so Clinton, Fasti rom.) at Halala, near Mount Taurus, in Cappadocia, whither she had accompanied Aurelius. Charitable schools for orphan girls (hence called Faustinianae) were founded in her honour.
See Capitolinus, Marcus Aurelius; Dio Cassius lxxi. 22, 1xX1V. 3; E. Renan, in Mélanges d'histoire et des voyages,