St. Melania of Rome icon (3) Mounted on wood Sizes:12x 18

St. Melania of Rome icon (3) Mounted on wood Sizes:12x 18Orthodox icon of St. Melania of Rome (3). Commemorated December 31. Saint Melania was born in Rome into a devout Christian family. Reaching maturity, the younger Melania fervently desired to keep her virginity and repeatedly begged her parents not to force her to marry, but she was their only child, and they wished to have descendants to inherit their vast wealth. Therefore, when the maiden was fourteen years old, she was wed to a youth of seventeen

now there was only a stream

There are more churches dedicated to St Nectarius than to any other modern Orthodox Saint

2) was kept

In the winter it was especially cold there

divine nature

dissensions and heresies which had appeared within the Church

The king would not listen to him

Peter and Paul are closest to Christ

made by Nuns in Greece

Paul's phrase "One and the same Spirit works all these things

The tomb of Saint Theodosia was glorified by numerous healings of the sick

Thrown for the night into prison