Mane

Saint Mane, also called Mane the Virgin, died in the year 323. She was a hermit of the end of the third century and the first half of the fourth, a celebrated saint, a preacher of Christianity in Armenia. According to tradition, she belonged to the company of the Holy Hripsimian virgins: in the time of Diocletian's persecution, thirty-⁠seven virgins left Rome and came to Armenia. Mane separated from them and withdrew to a cave on Mount Sepuh in the province of Yekeghyats, where she lived an "angelic life", in prayer and divine consolation. The cave remained known as "the cave of Mane". With her was also Nune, who parted from the group near Mount Varag and went to Iberia to continue her ascetic labor near Mtskheta.

Saint Gregory the Illuminator, wishing to withdraw from the world and spend his last days in solitude, chose the same cave on Sepuh. Mane asked him to return after three days. Gregory did so, found her reposed in the Lord, and buried her in the cave, singing psalms, in 323. The commemoration of Mane and Nune in the Armenian Church falls on the Tuesday after the feast of Holy Etchmiadzin. She is a saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church.