Manaen

Saint Manaen was a prophet and teacher in the Church of Antioch in the first century, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, and is numbered among the Seventy disciples. He had been "brought up with Herod the Tetrarch", that is, a childhood friend or foster brother of Herod Antipas.

In Acts (13:1-3) it is said that, as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting at Antioch, the Holy Spirit commanded that Barnabas and Saul be set apart; then Manaen, together with Simeon called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene, laid hands on them and sent them to their work. He was probably one of the founders of the Church of Antioch. He is believed to have been of noble birth but to have chosen poverty by following the teaching of Jesus; it is also supposed that Luke, the only evangelist who tells of the Lord's appearance before Herod (Luke 23:8-12), learned from him the details about Herod's family. The date of his death is not known; according to tradition he died a natural death at Antioch in Syria.

He is mentioned in many of the ancient martyrologies: on 23 May in the Orthodox Church and on 24 May in the Catholic Church.