Menas, Saint, -approximately 300

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Name (Latin)
Menas, Saint, -approximately 300
Other forms of name
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
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 67894182
Wikidata: Q163432
Library of congress: n 85091726
TAU10: 000522952
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Wikipedia description:

Menas of Egypt (also Mina, Minas, Mena, Meena; Greek: Ἅγιος Μηνᾶς; Coptic: ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲙⲏⲛⲁ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲫⲁⲓⲁⲧ; 285 – c. 309), a martyr and wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Coptic saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are attributed to his intercession and prayers. Menas was a Coptic soldier in the Roman army martyred because he refused to recant his Christian faith. The common date of his commemoration is November 11, which occurs 13 days later (November 24) on the Julian calendar. His feast day is celebrated every year on 15 Hathor in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, which corresponds to November 24 on the Gregorian Calendar. In Eastern Orthodox churches that follow the old style or Julian calendar, it is likewise celebrated on November 24. In the Eastern Orthodox churches that follow the new style or Revised Julian calendar, as well as in the Catholic Church, it is celebrated on November 11.

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