title: Saint Memnon
text: # Saint Memnon
  
  Saint Memnon the Wonderworker was alive during the second century A.D. He was a hegumen of an Egyptian monastery. His feast day is April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
  
  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 locusts, curing illnesses and saving boats from destruction.
  
  