RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Saint Menas

285 - 309

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Menas of Egypt (also Mina, Minas, Mena, Meena; Greek: Ἅγιος Μηνᾶς; Coptic: ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲙⲏⲛⲁ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲫⲁⲓⲁⲧ; 285 – c. 309), a martyr and wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Coptic saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are attributed to his intercession and prayers. Menas was a Coptic soldier in the Roman army martyred because he refused to recant his Christian faith. The common date of his commemoration is November 11, which occurs 13 days later (November 24) on the Julian calendar. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saint Menas is the 559th most popular religious figure (down from 515th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Egyptian Religious Figure.

Saint Menas is most famous for being a martyr and the patron saint of sailors.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Saint Menas ranks 559 out of 3,187. Before him are Pope Romanus, Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari, Zaynab bint Khuzayma, Uwais al-Qarani, Pope Leo VIII, and Moses the Black. After him are Philomena, Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb, Jehoshaphat, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, Paul of Thebes, and Rose of Lima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 285, Saint Menas ranks 1. After him are Juliana of Nicomedia, and Marcellus of Ancyra. Among people deceased in 309, Saint Menas ranks 2. Before him is Pope Marcellus I. After him are Hormizd II, Pamphilus of Caesarea, Domitius Alexander, Adur Narseh, Quirinus of Sescia, and Valerius Romulus.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Saint Menas ranks 98 out of 642. Before him are Athenaeus (200), Psamtik I (-700), Muhammad Abduh (1849), Lactantius (250), Arsinoe IV of Egypt (-68), and Moses the Black (332). After him are Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), Paul of Thebes (227), Berenice IV of Egypt (-77), Meritaten (-1400), Adly Mansour (1945), and Ramesses VI (-1175).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Egypt

Among religious figures born in Egypt, Saint Menas ranks 16. Before him are Pope Alexander I of Alexandria (250), Saint Sarah (100), Tiye (-1398), Mary of Egypt (344), Saint Apollonia (110), and Moses the Black (332). After him are Paul of Thebes (227), Meritaten (-1400), Maria al-Qibtiyya (600), Saint Maurice (250), Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926), and Djet (-3000).

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