RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Saint Menas

285 - 309

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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 198,705 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Saint Menas is the 515th most popular religious figure (down from 476th in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Egypt (down from 80th in 2019) and the 17th 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)

  • 9.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Saint Menas ranks 515 out of 3,187. Before him are Saint Sarah, Malachi, Pope Victor I, Simeon, Saint Florian, and Jehoshaphat. After him are Rashi, Tamar, Abbas ibn Ali, Suger, Desmond Tutu, and Theodore of Amasea.

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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, Adur Narseh, Domitius Alexander, Quirinus of Sescia, and Valerius Romulus.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Saint Menas ranks 93 out of 642. Before him are Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926), Maria al-Qibtiyya (600), Paul of Thebes (227), Isma'il Pasha (1830), Saint Sarah (100), and Athenaeus (200). After him are Userkaf (-2600), Adly Mansour (1945), Cleopatra III of Egypt (-161), Pappus of Alexandria (290), Mary of Egypt (344), and Ctesibius (-284).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Egypt

Among religious figures born in Egypt, Saint Menas ranks 17. Before him are Saint Apollonia (110), Saint Maurice (250), Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926), Maria al-Qibtiyya (600), Paul of Thebes (227), and Saint Sarah (100). After him are Mary of Egypt (344), Djet (-3000), Meritaten (-1400), Al-Suyuti (1445), Macarius of Egypt (300), and Pope Alexander I of Alexandria (250).

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