Menas 3

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M IX
Dates837 (c.) / 837 (c.)
PmbZ No.4969
ReligionChristian
Textual SourcesVita Petri Atroensis, by Sabas the monk (BHG 2364), ed. V. Laurent, La Vie merveilleuse de Saint Pierre d'Atroa, Subsidia Hagiographica 29 (Brussels, 1956) (hagiography);
Vita Retractata Petri Atroensis, by Sabas the monk (BHG 2365), ed. V. Laurent, La Vita retractata et les miracles posthumes de Saint Pierre d'Atroa, Subsidia Hagiographica 31 (Brussels, 1958) (hagiography)

Possessed by demons, Menas 3 was miraculously cured by St Peter of Atroa (Petros 34); he was a postulant: Vita Petr. Atr. 79, Vita Petr. Atr. Retractata, p. 127-8. His name is given only in the Vita Retractata. The date was shortly before the death of Petros 34 (in 837).

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