Saint Melania the Younger
- Memorial
- 31 December
- Profile
- Wealthy Roman patrician noble.
Granddaughter of Saint Melania the Elder.
Married against her will to Valerius Pinianus (Saint Pinian) at age 13.
After the death of their two children, both of whom died young, and to flee invasions of the Visigoths, they fled to Tagaste, North Africa in 410 where they had estates, and where they met Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Though they stayed married, the two took vows of celibacy, freed their slaves, sold their lands and goods in Spain and Gaul, and gave the proceeds to the poor.
Built two monasteries for Saint Augustine, then the couple moved to Jerusalem and entered a monastery and convent around 417.
Friends of Saint Paulinus of Nola and Saint Jerome.
Widowed in 432.
Directed the convent on the Mount of Olives for several years.
- Born
- c.383
- Died
- late December 439 at Jerusalem of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
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death of children
exiles
- Prayers
- ...for Pardon of Faults
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia, by Charles Schlitz
Catholic Encyclopedia, by Charles Schlitz
For All the Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
New Catholic Dictionary
Orthodox America, by Melanie Naumenko
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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