Holy Martyr Menignus

Life

Menignus was a native of the Hellespont and worked bleaching cloth, for which reason he was called the Bleacher. In the time of Emperor Decius he tore up the imperial decree about the persecution of Christians. For this he was thrown into prison, where the Lord Himself appeared to him and encouraged him saying: "Fear not, I am with thee." In that moment his chains melted like wax, the prison opened by itself, and he went out. Recaptured and tried again. He was tortured inhumanly: they cut off his fingers from his hands and his toes from his feet, and then they beheaded him. His head glowed at night like a candle.