05 Works, Today, June 8th, is Saint Melania the Elder’s day, her story in Paintings #159

Saint Melania the Elder, (born in Spain, ca. 350–died in Jerusalem before 410 or in ca. 417) was a Desert Mother who was an influential figure in the Christian ascetic movement that sprang up in the generation after the Emperor Constantine made Christianity a legal religion of the Roman Empire. She founded two religious communities on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem…

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