Martyr
Melana
A woman martyr of the Church, commemorated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- December 3old style December 16
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Melana is commemorated on 3 December (16 December in the new style) in the Handbook for Clergy published by the Moscow Patriarchate in 1978. The Azbyka page notes that her name has not entered the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church. No life, date or place of suffering is preserved there.
Commemorated the same day December 3
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