Venerable Martyr
Menas of Palestine
Monk of Palestine, martyred for the faith of Christ.
Life
Venerable Martyr Menas of Palestine lived the ascetic life in Palestine together with the venerable martyrs David and John. In the seventh century they received a martyr's end from the Arabs, who pierced them with arrows (after the year 636, when Jerusalem was taken by the Arabs). The Azbyka page gives no other details. Menas is commemorated on 25 April, in the new style.
Commemorated the same day April 12
Julius ISaint · Bishop of RomeApr 12
Zeno of VeronaSaint · Bishop of VeronaApr 12
Sabbas the GothMartyrApr 12
Athanasia of AeginaVenerable · Abbess of AeginaApr 12- Damian of PaviaSaint · Bishop of PaviaApr 12
Basil of PariaConfessor · Bishop of PariaApr 12- Akakios the New of KafsokalyviaVenerable · Hermit of Mount AthosApr 12
- Philophthea of PasăreaVenerable · Schemanun of PasăreaApr 12
- Isaac of SpoletoVenerableApr 12
AlferiusVenerableApr 12- Basil of ParionConfessor · Bishop of ParionApr 12
- Conda of Daire DachoimaVenerableApr 12