Martyr
Menas
Life
Holy Martyr Menas is commemorated on 31 August (new style) in the synaxis of the four martyrs Andrew, Heraclius, Faustus and Menas. The Greek synaxarion preserves no data about their lives or the place of their suffering; there remain only the name and the memory of their confession.
The name Menas is Greek and carries the sense of “bright like the moon”. He should not be confused with the Great Martyr Menas of Egypt, commemorated on 11 November.
Commemorated the same day August 31
Aristides of AthensMartyr · Christian apologistAug 31
Aidan of LindisfarneSaint · Bishop of LindisfarneAug 31
Gennadius of ConstantinopleSaint · Patriarch of ConstantinopleAug 31
Paulinus of TrierSaint · Bishop of TrierAug 31
WalaSaint · Adviser to CharlemagneAug 31
CuthburhVenerable · First abbess of WimborneAug 31
Martyrs of JasenovacHoly New Martyrs · Serbian new martyrsAug 31- Macarie the ProtopsaltesVenerable · Hieromonk and protopsaltesAug 31
- 366 Martyrs of NicomediaHoly MartyrsAug 31
- Aedh of Cuil MaineSaint · DeaconAug 31
- Alexander LyubimovHieromartyrAug 31
- AndrewMartyrAug 31