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87 ST. MENADINA Proclns baptized him, and he died a Christian. Melania then returned to Jerusalem. Before very long the Empress Eudoxia followed her ; she fell ill and was cured by Melania. In 439, Melania went from her ' convent in Jerusalem to spend Christmas Day at the Holy Crib at Beth- lehem. There she took a chill, and on her return became very ill. Many monks and holy persons came to see her and hear her last words. She died on the last day of that year. B.M,, Dec, 31. Mart of Salisbury ^ Oct. 22. Greek Meneaa. Baillet. Riba- deneira. Iteckj, Morah of Europe. Gre- goroTios, Athenais, St. Melari, Nonna, mother of St. David. St. Meld, Mblla. St. M61£childe, Mj^n^hould. St. Melitina, Sept. 15, M. 2nd or 3rd century. She was found preaching, and having confessed that she was a Christian, she was beaten, then led to the temple to sacrifice ; but the idol fell down and was broken, in answer to her prayers. In consequence of this, many of the spectators were converted, among them the wife of the Governor. Meli- tina was again scourged, and after being imprisoned for some time and horribly tortured and insulted, she was led back to the temple. Again the idols fell down and were broken. She was then be- headed at Marcianopolis in Thrace. A good man of Macedonia, named Acacius, begged to have her body to take to his own country; he died at sea, and the sailors buried the two corpses at the island of Lemnos. B.M, AA.SS, Menology of Basil. St. Mella, Meld, or Melle, March 9, 31, 6th or 81^ century. Abbess of Doire Melle, i.e, the oak grove of Molle. She was of the feunily of Macgnai or Macnae, and was mother of two saints, Cannech or Kenneth a priest, one of the great Irish saints, and Tigemach an abbot. On the death of her husband, Tiger- nach resigned to her his monastery on Lough Melve or Melge in Leitrim. She there collected a number of pious women whom she governed for many years, ac- cording to Colgan, in the 8th century. Another Mella was mother of St. Abban and sister of St. Coemgin, early in the 6th century ; and there was a St. Mel, a man, a disciple of St. Patrick. Lanigan. Colgan. Forbes. Mart, of Tallaght. St. Melosa, June 1,M. with Aucega. St. Mema, Memma (l), Jan. 21 or 24, M. AA.SS. B. Memalia, May 13, 22, sister of St. Servais, tenth bishop of Tongres. Chron. of Baldwin of Ninove, Chron, Beiges. St Meme, May 7, V. M. Under this name Maxima (5) is honoured at Dour- dan near Paris. Cahier. St. MSmesse, V. mentioned by Jocelin. GuSrin. Perhaps Maxima. St. Memma (l) or Mema, Jan. 21 or 24, M. AA,SS. St. Memma (2) or Mbmmia, Oct. 17, M. in Mauritania, probably 304. AA,SS. St. Memma (3), V. In 1243, on the 4th of the Kalends of June (May 29), the church of St. Memma the Vir- gin was dedicated, at Sconin, by the Bishop of St. Andrews. Bishop Forbes says she is perhaps Modwenna. Cosmo Innes, Lectures on Scotch Legal Antiqui' ties^ "Eegister of the Priory of St. Andrews." St. Memmea, Mamea or Mammea, Oct. 9, M. Queen. Mother of the Em- peror Alexander. AAJ3S.y Praeter. St. Memmia (l), Aug. 8, March IG, M. 303, with Juliana (6), Cykiacide and DoNATA, disciples of St. Cyriacus, deacon. Memmia and Juliana were put to death at Home by their affianced husbands, Tarpeius and Persius, because they would neither be married to them nor sacrifice to the gods. Their faithful servants Largus and Smaragdus shared their fate. Then Tarpeius and Persius were afraid that Cyriacus would have their crime punished as it deserved, so they lay in wait for him and beat him to dealh. These martyrs were am<^g those buried byST.LuciNA. AA.SS. Butler. Baillet. St. Memmia (2), Nimonia. St. Memmia (3) or Memma, Oct. 17, M. in Mauritania, probably 304. AA.SS. St. Memmia (4). {See Soteris (2).) St. Memoe or Memoie, Nkomadia. St. Menadina, May 26. Gu^rin. Perhaps same as Mindinia.