Saint Memnon the
Wonderworker
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A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a "thaumaturge", "thauma ...
was alive during the second century A.D. He was a ''
hegumen
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'' of an Egyptian monastery. His feast day is
April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
April 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 29
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on ''May 11'' by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For April 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints lis ...
.
In the Egyptian desert he practised religious
asceticism.
He is said to have performed a number of miracles. Some of his miracles include causing a spring to gush forth, destroying a plague of
locust
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s, curing illnesses and saving boats from destruction.
Serbian Orthodox Church
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See also
* Saint Menas
Menas of Egypt (also Mina, Minas, Mena, Meena; el, Άγιος Μηνάς, ; 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 in ...
* Temptation of Christ
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References
Saints from Roman Egypt
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