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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Saint Menas

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Menas of Egypt (also Mina, Minas, Mena, Meena; Greek: Άγιος Μηνάς, Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲏⲛⲁ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saint Menas has received more than 195,845 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Saint Menas is the 481st most popular religious figure (up from 580th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Egypt (up from 110th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Saint Menas ranks 481 out of 2,238. Before him are Zaynab bint Ali, Dominic Savio, Charbel Makhlouf, Aloysius Gonzaga, Vincent of Saragossa, and Pope Leo VII. After him are Pope Sisinnius, Luigi Lucheni, Saint Sarah, Gregory Palamas, Pope John VI, and Pope Pontian.

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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, Valerius Romulus, Domitius Alexander, and Adur Narseh.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Saint Menas ranks 81 out of 582. Before him are Psamtik I (-700), Lactantius (250), Hassan al-Banna (1906), Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Den (-3000), and Isetnofret (-1250). After him are Mohamed Morsi (1951), Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), Saint Sarah (100), Athenaeus (200), Djedefre (-2600), and Ctesibius (-284).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Egypt

Among religious figures born in Egypt, Saint Menas ranks 16. Before him are Tiye (-1398), Saint Apollonia (110), Meritaten (-1400), Paul of Thebes (227), Saint Maurice (250), and Pachomius the Great (292). After him are Saint Sarah (100), Mary of Egypt (344), Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926), Djet (-3000), Al-Suyuti (1445), and Maria al-Qibtiyya (600).

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