Baring-Gould’s sources: Modem Roman Martyrology. Greek Menaeas and Menologies. Authority: — The Acts in Metaphrastes, which are wholly apocryphal.] Menas was a senator of Alexandria, and philosopher, who secretly professed Christ. The emperor Maximinus heard that he was labouring in private to convert the heathen, and he sent Hermogenes, an* officer in whom he felt confidence, to Alexandria to cut Menas off. On his voyage Hermogenes saw in a dream three luminous personages, who assured him he would gain great advantage by his journey. On reaching Alexandria, Menas was summoned into the theatre, and asked what he believed. Menas replied in a long oration which lasted four hours, and the judge and all the people hung breathless on his lips, and quite regretted when he ceased speaking — the most remarkable sermon on record. The substance of it, as given by Metaphrastes, would make a modem audience yawn in ten minutes. Hermogenes ordered the soles of his feet to be scraped away, his tongue to be tom out, and his eyes to be scooped out. In this condition he was taken back to prison, where he perfectly recovered in a night. This miracle led to the conversion of Hermogenes and a number of soldiers. The emperor Maximinus then came to Alexandria, and tortured Hermogenes and Menas as cruelly as he was able, but found it impossible to do them permanent injury, as they were miraculously healed as fast as he could mangle them. Eugraphius, the servant of Menas, joined himself to his master, and finally all three were executed with the sword. The Acts are inconceivably silly, and are utterly worthless. They are wholly unhistorical, and it is questionable whether they are founded on any basis of fact