Menalap of Nicomedia

Holy Martyr Menalap of Nicomedia, also called Melanippus, is commemorated together with other Nicomedian martyrs, Zeno and Cosconius (Concordius). The Azbyka page gives no life of him, but follows what the early sources say about this company.

The Syriac Martyrology of 411 mentions on 2 September "ancient martyrs", a phrase usual for those who died before the persecution of Diocletian at the beginning of the fourth century: Aphitarkinus, Cosconius, Zeno, Melanippus and the sons of the martyr Theodota, who suffered at Nicomedia. The Martyrology of Blessed Jerome, from the first half of the fifth century, names on the same date, in the same city, Zeno, Gorgonius, Menalap, Theodota with her sons, and Cosconius. In the opinion of the scholar H. Delehaye, probably only Zeno, Cosconius (Concordius) and Menalap (Melanippus) suffered at Nicomedia. The martyr Theodota and her sons are venerated separately, since Western martyrologies record them as suffering at Nicaea on 2 August, and the Synaxarion of Constantinople on 29 July. In the martyrology of Cardinal Baronius, of the sixteenth century, Zeno is mentioned together with his sons Concordius and Theodore, perhaps from another source.

The commemoration of Menalap is entered in the Byzantine calendars on 2 September (15 September in the new style). The Azbyka page notes that his name is not found in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.