• The Monastery of St. Melania the Roman (Serbian: Манастир Свете Меланије Римљанке, Manastir Svete Melanije Rimljanke) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery...
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    Melania the Elder, Latin Melania Maior (born in Spain, ca. 350 - died in Jerusalem before 410 or in ca. 417) was a Desert Mother who was an influential...
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    Honorius, son of Theodosius I. She is the paternal granddaughter of Melania the Elder. The Feast of Melania the Younger is held on 31 December (the Julian calendar's...
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  • The Monastery of Our Lady and St. Laurence, Canon City, Colorado. Abbot: Father Theodore. St. John the Baptist Monastery, Warwick, MA. Male Monastery...
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    Paulinus of Nola, Melania the Elder, Rufinus of Aquileia and Isidore the Confessor. She then settled in Bethlehem and established a monastery for men and...
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    June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) (category June in the Eastern Orthodox calendar)
    303) Martyr Mark, by the sword. Saint Naucratius, brother of St. Basil the Great (4th century) Venerable Melania the Elder, nun, of Palladius’ Lausiac History...
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    AD he became a monk at the monastery of Rufinus and Melania the Elder. He then went to Egypt and spent the remaining years of his life in Nitria and Kellia...
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  • for the churches he had built. The relic had been given to Therasia and Paulinus by Melania the Elder. Augustine of Hippo gave the gift of a loaf of bread...
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    December 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) (category December in the Eastern Orthodox calendar)
    and took upon himself the care of orphans." Melania the Younger and Pinian: Melania was the granddaughter of St Melania the Elder. Born in Rome, she...
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    Pambo (redirect from Saint Pambo of Nitria)
    known for having founded monasteries in the Nitrian Desert. Pambo and his monastery received many gifts of support from Melania the Elder and had a close...
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    Christian monasticism (category History of Catholic monasticism)
    the height of the East Roman Empire, numerous great monasteries were established by the emperors, including the twenty "sovereign monasteries" on the...
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  • congregations. Later, during 379 CE the first monastery for women was founded in Jerusalem by Saint Melania the Elder. This was a significant moment...
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    Epiphanius' monastery near Eleutheropolis, Tyrannius Rufinus' and Saint Melania the Elder's monastery in Jerusalem, Euthymius' Laura in the Judean desert...
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    Basilica (redirect from The Basilica)
    century basilica at the Monastery of Stoudios, were mostly equipped with a small cruciform crypt (Ancient Greek: κρυπτή, romanized: kryptḗ, lit. 'hidden')...
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  • Martyrs of the Appian Way (c. 304) — found in Roman Martyrology 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia (304–305) Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (320) Martyrs of Persia...
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  • communities, like Melania the Younger who convinced her husband Valerius Pinianus to establish a monastery in the Holy Land. The ascetic Jerome was the spiritual...
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    June 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) (category June in the Eastern Orthodox calendar)
    Translation of the relics (1572) of St. Ephraim of Novotorzhk, founder of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery, Novotorzhok (1053) Translation of the relics (c...
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    (commonly known as the Byzantine Empire). c. 380: Tyrannius Rufinus and Melania the Elder found the first monastery in Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives. 386:...
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  • Ultimately the plan to rebuild the Temple is scrapped after the death of emperor Julian in June 363. 374/5 – Melania the Elder founds a monastery on the Mount...
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    Σικελία, romanized: Sikelía) was the first province acquired by the Roman Republic, encompassing the island of Sicily. The western part of the island was...
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    ward Peter the Iberian as well as with Melania the Younger, a famous ascetic. Although involved in the revolt of the Syriac Monophysites (453), she was ultimately...
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  • Retrieved 2022-06-09. "St. Paul of Thebes | Biography & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-06-09. "Decius | Roman emperor | Britannica"...
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    Rufinus and Melania, an aristocratic lady of Spanish descent. This first structure was destroyed by the Persians in 614, but replaced by St Modestus shortly...
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    an urn. She took another portion of his ashes to the Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in Ithaca, New York. There, some of his remains were ceremonially blessed...
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    Sorbs (redirect from Flag of Sorbs)
    Kraszewski founded a scholarship for Sorbian students. His sister Melania Parczewska [pl] joined the Maćica Serbska in 1878, wrote articles about Sorbs in Polish...
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    Filaret Denysenko (category Recipients of the Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine)
    parents were Anton and Melania Denysenko. He obtained his theological education at the Odesa Seminary (Moscow Patriarchate) and the Moscow Theological Academy...
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    just the opposite". Jalics initially refused to discuss the complaint after moving into seclusion in a German monastery. Two days after the election of Francis...
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    Umberto Eco (category Former Roman Catholics)
    his first novel The Name of the Rose (1980), a historical mystery set in a 14th-century monastery. Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, aided by his...
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    the dancing manias of the Middle Ages, including St. John's dance and tarantism. These were supposed to be associated with spirit possession or the bite...
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    he had the monasteries dissolved, causing opposition in the still largely Catholic nation. Under Henry's son Edward VI (1547–1553), the Church of England...
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