ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 31st of December WELCOME! SAINT MELANIA THE YOUNGER Melania was of a most noble Spanish family, though descended of a Roman pedigree, and a relation of St Paulinus of Nola, second to no one in Aquitain and Spain in riches or nobility. SHE WAS LEFT A WIDOW AT AGE TWENTY-THREE Being married young, she was left a widow at twenty-three years of age. Upon the death of her husband she said to God: "Now, O Lord, I shall be at liberty to devote myself without distraction to thy service." Having put her son Publicola into the hands of good tutors, she embarked with Rufinus for Egypt in 371: and after spending six months in visiting the monks of those parts, went into Palestine, but so much disguised, that the governor of Jerusalem cast her into gaol for visiting certain prisoners, till she made herself known to him, and then he treated her with the greatest respect. SHE LIVED IN PALESTINE TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS After some time s...