Mnason

Saint Mnason was a Christian from Cyprus of the first century, mentioned in a single verse of the Acts of the Apostles (21:16), where he is called an "early disciple". When Paul returned to Jerusalem at the end of his third missionary journey (about the year 57), he was lodged in his house, together with his companions. The text does not say clearly where the house lay, in Jerusalem or on the road, nor whether Mnason made the journey with them from Caesarea; the most widely held reading is that the disciples brought Paul to Mnason. He was probably a Hellenistic Jew, like Barnabas, and wealthy enough to receive the whole company. One tradition numbers him among the Seventy disciples.

Cypriot tradition says that he shepherded, together with Saint Heraclidius, the Christian community of Tamassos and succeeded him as bishop. A stone sarcophagus ascribed to him stands in the martyrion of the monastery of Saint Heraclidius near Tamassos.