Remembered on December 10
Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus
- MartyrA saint who was killed for bearing witness to Christ.
All martyrs
Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus are remembered as martyrs in Alexandria during the Roman persecutions. Their traditional life describes Menas as an official who openly confessed Christ, Hermogenes as the man sent to punish him who became a Christian, and Eugraphus as Menas’s secretary. Their remembrance includes a man who changed sides, leaving persecution behind. It reminds us that someone who opposes the faith today may yet become our brother in Christ.
How they died
Tradition holds that all three were killed with swords for their faith.
- Feast day
- December 10
Parishes on the Old Calendar keep it on December 23. - Kind of saint
- Martyr
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