Menas, Saint, -approximately 300
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Name (Latin)
Menas, Saint, -approximately 300
Other forms of name
Minās, Saint, -approximately 300
Marmīnā al-ʻAjāʼibī, Saint, -approximately 300
Mena, of Egypt, Saint, -approximately 300
Menas, Saint, of Mareotis, -303?
Menas, Saint, d. ca. 300
Mennas, Saint, Egyptian martyr
Mennas, Saint, -approximately 300
Mīnā al-ʻAjāʼibī, Saint, -approximately 300
Mīnā, Saint, -approximately 300
Date of death
0305
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- Butler, Lives of the saints, ed. Thurston & Attwater, c1956:Nov. 11 (Mennas, or Menas, an Egyptian martyr; the great shrine at Abu-Mina, SW of Alexandria, built over his tomb, a principle place of pilgrimage until 7th cent.)
- Gadel zaQedus Minās waQedus ʼAbā Nob, January 24, 2020.
- Holweck(Menas (Mennas), d. 295 (303?) of Mareotis, Egypt)
- Kīrillus al-Sādis, Abnāʼ al-Bābā. al-Qiddīs Mīnā al-ʻAjāʼibī, 1983?:t.p. (al-Qiddīs Mīnā al-ʻAjāʼibī; d. 309)
- LC database, Apr. 2, 2014(hdg.: Menas, Saint, of Mareotis, -303?)
- LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Mennas, Saint, Egyptian martyr)
- Oxford dict. of saints, 1992(Menas, or Mennas, d. ca. 300, martyr; his shrine at Bumma near Alexandria a principal pilgrimage center until 7th cent.; spelling Menas used in Latin, French, and German titles in bibl.)
- Oxford dict. of the Christian Church, c1958(Menas, St., ca. 3rd-4th cent., Egyptian martyr, feast Nov. 11)
- Texts relating to St. Mena of Egypt, 1909.
- al-Qiddīs al-ʻaẓīm Mārmīnā al-ʻAjāʼibī, 1996:t.p. (al-Qiddīs Mārmīnā al-ʻAjāʼibī)