Eumenios was a pious bishop who started out in Crete, and travelled to Rome, then to Thebes in Egypt. He died at a very old age, and his relics were returned to Greece.

So not wanting to discount the value of St. Eumenios – but for the purposes of our project – his commemoration will probably get bumped by someone for whom more information is available. The criteria we created two years ago when we started this project stipulated that in order to be included in the new menaion there had to be a story, something to inspire the reader, and the community. I spent 10 minutes looking in various sources and found not much more than this. Oh, and he performed a few miracles. That’s cool – but not everyone performs miracles – there must be something else – something that we can all aspire to as faithful indie catholics.