• Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
  • Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor TheHolyArt
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Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor

Saint Menas icon, Handmade Greek Orthodox icon St Menas of Egypt, Byzantine art wall hanging on wood plaque icon, religious decor

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This wonderful icon has been created with the technique of lithography and has a double varnish to ensure waterproof and duration in time. The creator of this icon has learned the canonization of iconography in workshops of the Monasteries of Mount Athos, where he was taught both the technique of lithography and the process of handmade artificial ageing.


The holy, glorious and right-victorious Martyr Menas (or Mina; 285-309 A.D.), the Wonder-worker, is one of the most well known Egyptian saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are performed through his intercessions. His feast day is celebrated on November 11 (or in the Coptic church on Hathor 15 (November 24)).


Life

Saint Menas was born in Egypt in 285 A.D., in the city of Niceous (Nakiyos or Nikiu), which lies in the vicinity of Memphis. His parents were real ascetic Christians; his father's name was Audexios (or Eudoxius) and his mother's name was Aufimia (or Euphemia). On the feast of St. Mary, the mother who did not have any children was praying in front of the icon of the Virgin with tears that God would give her a blessed son. A sound came to her ears saying "Amen," and thus she called her son Menas.


His father, a ruler of one of the administrative divisions of Egypt, died when Menas was 14 years old. At the age of 15, Menas joined the army. He was given a high rank because of his father's reputation and was stationed in Algeria. Three years later he left the army longing to devote his whole life to Christ. He headed towards the desert to live a different kind of life.


After spending five years as a hermit, he saw in a revelation the angels crowning the martyrs with glamorous crowns, and longed to join those martyrs. While he was thinking about it, he heard a voice saying: "Blessed are you, Abba Menas, because you have been called for the pious life from your childhood. You shall be granted three immortal crowns; one because

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