Menās
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ሜናስ፡ Menās ሚናስ፡ Minās ʾabbā role: title
Birth
Period of Activity
He was a saint and martyr venerated in the Byzantine empire ↗ and all over the Christian Orient, especially in Egypt↗ . He was supposedly martyred during the Diocletian persecution of Christians in Kotyaion↗ . Minās seems to have been a popular saint in Ethiopia↗ to which both his frequent representations in art as well as the name of 16th century ʾaṣe role: titleMinās , named after him, testify.
Death
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Names
- birth: ሜናስ፡ gez
- alt: ሚናስ፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Residence
Faith
Coptic
Nationality
Egypt
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Bausi, A. 2002. La versione etiopica degli Acta Phileae nel Gadla samāʿtāt, Supplemento agli Annali, 60–61 (2000–2001), 92 (Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 2002).
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Witakowski, W. 2007. ‘Menas’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 918a–919a.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻMenāsʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2019-03-27) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS7000MenasM [Accessed: 2024-06-03]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo removed occupation containing St, Saint, bibl, biblical or prophet, added keyword. See https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Documentation/issues/1104 on 27.3.2019
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 14.11.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor