# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melania-the-elder
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:19:16.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melania-the-elder"
name: "Melania the Elder"
slug: "melania-the-elder"
description: "Melania the Elder, Latin Melania Maior was a Desert Mother who was an influential figure in the Christian ascetic movement that sprang up in the generation after the Emperor Constantine made Christianity a legal religion of the Roman Empire. She was a contemporary of, and well known to, Abba Macarius and other Desert Fathers in Egypt, Jerome, Augustine of Hippo, Paulinus of Nola, and Evagrius of Pontus, and she founded two religious communities on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. She stands out for the double monastery she founded - a convent for herself, and a second monastery for monks dedicated to her spiritual companion, Rufinus of Aquileia, which belong to the earliest Christian monastic communities, and because she promoted the asceticism which she, as a follower of Origen, considered indispensable for salvation."
tagline: "Holy Land saint"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Orante_(particolare)%2C_catacombe_di_priscilla%2C_cubicolo_della_velatio%2C_roma_(met%C3%A0_III_secolo).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "350"
deathDate: "410"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.81
  momentum:             5.278969957081546
  historical:           13.57192533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0"
    title: "Света Меланија Старија"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_la_Vieya"
    title: "Melania la Vieya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%C3%A0nia_la_Vella"
    title: "Melània la Vella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_die_%C3%84ltere"
    title: "Melania die Ältere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_the_Elder"
    title: "Melania the Elder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_la_Plia%C4%9Da"
    title: "Melania la Pliaĝa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_la_Vieja"
    title: "Melania la Vieja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF%E2%80%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "ملانیای بزرگ‌تر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9lanie_l'Ancienne"
    title: "Mélanie l'Ancienne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_Tua"
    title: "Melania Tua"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_l'anziana"
    title: "Melania l'anziana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A6%E1%83%98%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%90"
    title: "ღირსი მელანია"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_de_Oudere"
    title: "Melania de Oudere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_Starsza"
    title: "Melania Starsza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%C3%A2nia%2C_a_Velha"
    title: "Melânia, a Velha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%8F"
    title: "Мелания Старшая"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3306296"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump