Saint Menignus of Parium

Also known as

• Menigno of Pario

Memorial

• 15 March
• 22 November on some calendars

Profile

Married layman. fuller and cloth dyer. Tortured, his fingers hacked off, and executed in the persecutions of Decius for tearing down an edict suppressing the faith. Martyr.

Died

• beheaded c.250 in the Greek city of Parium in the Hellespont (in modern Turkey)
• witnesses say they saw his soul leave the mouth of his severed head in the form of a dove

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Dominican Adaptations from the Catalogus Hagiographicus OP
• Medieval Religion Listserv, by John Dillon
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

• “Saint Menignus of Parium“. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 March 2013. Web. 20 May 2013. <>