Menas

Holy Venerable Menas practised asceticism in a monastery on Mount Sinai in the sixth century, where he lived fifty years. Three days after his death the brotherhood of the monastery gathered to sing for him. According to Christian tradition, during the service the church filled with a fragrance coming from the place where the dead man lay. The abbot ordered the grave opened, and all those present saw holy myrrh flowing from both of the dead man's feet. The Church commemorates him on 5 January by the old calendar (18 January by the new).