Melania (the Younger), Saint

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• Melania the Younger — Saint Melania the Younger Born c. 383 Rome Died 31 December 439(439 12 31) Jerusalem …   Wikipedia

• St. Melania (The Younger) —     St. Melania (the Younger)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Melania (the Younger)     Born at Rome, about 383; died in Jerusalem, 31 December, 439. She was a member of the famous family of Valerii. Her parents were Publicola and Albina, her… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Melania the Younger —    Saint who was born in Rome (q.v.) in 383 and died in 439 in the monastery she built on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem (q.v.). A wealthy aristocrat by birth, she and her husband sold their vast estates in 406 and embraced the monastic life.… …   Historical dictionary of Byzantium

• Melania the Elder — Saint Melania the Elder or Maior (325–410) was a Desert Mother who was an influential figure in the Christian ascetic movement (the Desert Fathers and Mothers) that sprang up in the generation after the Emperor Constantine made Christianity the… …   Wikipedia

• Melania — derives from Greek word μελαινα (melaina) meaning black, dark [1] and may refer to: Melania Albea (born 1980), a Swiss figure skater who also competed internationally for Spain Melania Carolina Hotu Hey, the provincial governor of Rapa Nui… …   Wikipedia

• Desert Mothers — Saint Paula and her daughter Eustochium with their spiritual advisor Saint Jerome painting by Francisco de Zurbarán. The Desert Mothers were female Christian ascetics living in the desert of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the 4th and 5th… …   Wikipedia

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• Amen — • One of a small number of Hebrew words which have been imported unchanged into the liturgy of the Church Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Amen     Amen      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Lent — • An article on the origins of Lenten fasting Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Lent     Lent     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Stylites — • Solitaries who, taking up their abode upon the tops of a pillar (stylos), chose to spend their days amid the restraints thus entailed and in the exercise of other forms of asceticism. This practice may be regarded as the climax of a tendency… …   Catholic encyclopedia