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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Menas

A saint commemorated in the Greek synaxarion.

Feast
January 24old style February 6
Era
unknown

Life

Saint Menas the Martyr is commemorated on 24 January (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece) together with Hermogenes. Greek lists give either "Hermogenes and Menas" or "Hermogenes and Mamas", and the English calendar writes "Martyrs Hermogenes and Menas (Mamas)".

The sources consulted give no details about his life, or about the place and time of his suffering.

Commemorated the same day January 24