Melania Junior (385–439 CE) was a Roman of senatorial rank, known for her charity and for founding a monastery in Jerusalem. She was born around 385 CE to Valerius Publicola and Albina, the daughter of the prefect of Rome (Clark, 1984, 84). Melania married Pinianus, a wealthy Roman of senatorial rank, but the couple soon decided to live as ascetics and dissolved their fortune through charity. During the siege of Rome …