St. Melania of Rome icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 x 11

St. Melania of Rome icon Mounted on wood Sizes:8 x 11Orthodox icon of St. Melania of Rome. 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 named

and no one has given me encouragement and hope that I should ever behold her

Aspebet received the name Peter in Baptism and afterwards he was a bishop among the Arabs

But the nuns decided not to leave and entrusted themselves to the will of the Lord

Gracefully accepting to be outwitted by her

The very miraculous icon of the Most Holy Theotokos and Virgin Maria

During Holy Week he spoke of how Christ was betrayed

The apostle went up around the hills

She ran to the place where the Lord's Body lay

usually twice a week

striving for a greater degree of spiritual perfection

So the King summoned her and asked her to deny Christ and to worship the gods and she would become queen

Joseph is found in the bottom left of the icon