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Immediately, Zinon ordered the saint's body to be dug out, and a church to be built there. Not only that, but when Arcadius and Honorius reigned they also ordered that [http://www.stmina-monastery.org/abu_mena.htm a large city to be built there and named after the saint]. Sick people from all over the world, used to visit that city and were healed by the intercession of St. Menas, the Miracle-maker. That is evident from the numerous little clay bottles on which his name and picture are engraved. These were discovered by archeologists in diverse countries around the Mediterranean world, such as Heidleburg in Germany, Milan in Italy, Dalmata in Yugoslavia, Marceille in France, Dengela in Sudan, and Jerusalem. Visitors from these cities and others would buy these bottles, usually containing oil or water for blessing, and take them back to their relatives.
Mrs. Edith L. Butcher (a historian) recorded that destruction started to take place in the city, and its inhabitants were degraded after the Arab conquest. During the period after Haroun El-Rasheed ([[Islam|Muslim ]] ruler), the Berbers attacked the city and burned a large portion of it. At the time of El-Mamoun (Muslim ruler) he ordered to put the entire city down, and then he used its numerous marble pillars to build his palace and mosques. It is only in the twentieth century that international missions began to search for the city and the church (now a UNESCO World Heritage Site). The remainders of it, no doubt, demonstrates the glory of the Coptic past.
===The New Cathedral of St. Menas===