Case file · Apparition / miracle
Saint Menas's camels and healing flasks
Legend says that the camels carrying the martyr Menas's body refused to go further at a spot west of Alexandria, and a healing spring rose where he was buried.
400 CE · 30.84, 29.66 · status: legend
The account
Abu Mena became one of the largest pilgrim centres of late antiquity. Clay flasks of its holy water, stamped with the saint between two camels, are found across the Mediterranean world.