Menas of Samnium ( la, Sanctus Menna Samnii) is a 6th-century hermit venerated as a

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in the Catholic Church. The primary source for details of his life is an account written by Pope Gregory the Great and also published in the sixth century.

Veneration

The Catholic Church commemorates SAINT Menas on

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with an entry in the '' Roman Martyrology''. The 2004 edition of the ''Martyrology'' reads: "In the province of Samnium, the commemoration of Saint Menas, hermit, whose virtues Pope Saint Gregory the Great commemorates." His entry in the 1956 edition of the ''Martyrology'' (representing the Tridentine tradition) is nearly identical.

Pope Gregory's account

Pope Gregory the Great gives the following account of Menas's life in his ''Dialogues'', published :

References

{{reflist Italian Roman Catholic saints 6th-century Christian saints Italian hermits 6th-century Italian people