A baptismal name for a boy
Menas
12 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Menas
Great Martyr Menas of EgyptNovember 11Martyr and wonderworker of Egypt, venerated throughout Christendom, who died around the year 309.
Saint Menas of ConstantinopleAugust 25Ecumenical Patriarch from 536 to 552, born in Alexandria, who died in 552..jpg)
Martyr Menas KallikeladosDecember 10Martyr called Kallikelados, meaning the sweet-voiced, venerated as a saint in the Orthodox Church.- Venerable MenasJanuary 5A holy monk commemorated in the Serbian Orthodox calendar.
- Martyr MenasAugust 31
- Martyr MenasJune 11Chinese Orthodox Christian, killed in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rising.
- Venerable Martyr Menas of PalestineApril 12Monk of Palestine, martyred for the faith of Christ.
- Martyr Menas of RomeJanuary 30Christian of Rome, martyred for the faith of Christ.
- Venerable Menas of SinaiJanuary 5Venerable monk of Sinai, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Venerable Menas of VatopediAn Athonite elder of Vatopedi Monastery, who reposed in 1981; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Menas of PhilotheouAn Athonite elder of Philotheou Monastery, who reposed in 1947; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Venerable Menas of MavrovouniA clairvoyant elder at Mavrovouni of St Anne Skete, disciple of Onouphrios, who reposed in 1916; venerated, not formally canonized.
Questions
The name day of Menas is November 11, the feast of Great Martyr Menas of Egypt. It is also kept on August 25, December 10, January 5, August 31, June 11, April 12, January 30.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 12 saints named Menas, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Menas is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have Great Martyr Menas of Egypt as patron.