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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.