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Granddaughter of melania the elder, heiress and ascetic; b. Rome, ; d.

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Jerusalem, Dec. The daughter of Valerius Publicola and Albina Ceionia, and heiress to great wealth, Melania at 14 was forced to marry her cousin Valerius Pinian. After the early death of their two infants, she persuaded St. Pinian to live in married continence and to dispose of their wealth in favor of the poor. After the death of her father c.

With Pinian she visited paulinus of nola and, fleeing before the Gothic invasion from the north, settled in Sicily in the company of rufinus of aquileia. When he died , she and Pinian visited North Africa for seven years, met augustine and alipius in Hippo, and encouraged the spread of ascetical movements. They settled in Jerusalem , made a pilgrimage among the Egyptian monks, and met cyril of alexandria.

After returning to Jerusalem, Melania founded a convent for nuns on the Mt. Upon the death of Pinian , she increased her penitential activities, visited Constantinople to convert her uncle Volusianus, and met the Empress Eudoxia Athenais, whom she later befriended in Jerusalem. Her life was written by the monk Gerontius. Bibliography: gerontius, The Life of Melania, the Younger, tr.

Freiburg — 65 — ; Traditio, 5 59 — Paris — 53