Feastday: November 11
| of near Alexandria. Aka Mena of Kemet (Egypt). Known as Menas of Cotyauem, Menas of Cotyaes; Menas of Cotyaeum; Menas of Egypt; Menas of Kotyaeum; Menas of Mareotis; and Mennas. |
| I drove camels early in life, but I became a solider for Caesar. |
| Firmilian was my primicerius. The reign and terror of the persecutions of Diocletian, and coruler Maximian erupted. |
| I left the Imperial Army of Rome, and became a hermit. I was led to preach on one occasion. Through the authority of Pyrrhus, the local prefect, I was arrested for professing and teaching Christ, severely beaten, tortured, martyred at Cotyaes, Phrygia. |
| Miracles through the grace of God were ascribed to my place of repose. A large church building (called Basilica), became known as the |
“Glory of the Libyan Desert”. Christian faithful buried me in Mareotis, Kemet(Egypt).
