Venerable
Menas of Sinai
Venerable monk of Sinai, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.
- Feast
- January 5old style January 18
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Menas of Sinai lived the ascetic life for fifty years in the Sinai monastery and reposed in peace in the second half of the sixth century. He is commemorated on 18 January and on 5 May, a movable day, with the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of Sinai, in the new style.
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