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Melania, the Elder, Saint, 341?-410?

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Personal name headingMelania, the Elder, Saint, 341?-410?
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Variant(s)Melania, Maior, Saint, 341?-410?
LocatedRome (Italy)
Birth date0341?
Death date0410?
Place of birthSpain
Place of deathJerusalem
Field of activityChristianity
Found inMelania, 2018: ECIP qck galley, chapter 1, introduction (Melania the Elder (c. 341-c. 410; born around the year 340 or 341 in Spain; died in Jerusalem)
Wikipedia, April 21, 2016: (Saint Melania the Elder or Maior (325-417); Melania the Elder (325-410); born in Spain; married at fourteen, and moved with her husband, Valerius Maximus Basilius Proconsul of Achaea and a Praefectus Urbi, to the suburbs of Rome; became a Christian in Rome; regarded as a saint; died in 417 in Jerusalem)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania%5Fthe%5FElder>
St. Andronicus and St. Athanasia website, April 21, 2016: (St. Melania was the daughter of the Roman consul, Marcellinus, and born Spain in 341. She moved to Rome following her marriage at age 14, to a proconsul and prefect of Rome. She was widowed eight years later, age 22)
   <http://andronicus-athanasia.org/Melania%5Fthe%5FElder.html>