[1] According to the Gadla Afse, Minas was bishop when the Nine Saints came to Ethiopia between the late 4th and 6th centuries.
Although there is no information on Minas' origins, modern scholars have been quick to assume he was an Egyptian.
He wrote sermons, six of which are still part of the liturgy of Ethiopian monasteries, read at designated times of the year.
These six cover the Apostles, the Seventy Disciples, the Dormition of the Virgin, the Feast of the Cross, the 318 attendees of the First Council of Nicaea and the season of spring.
The translation of the Geʽez text The Story of How the Interiors of Ethiopia Came to Christianity, an extract from Tyrannius Rufinus on the mission of Frumentius, may also be the work of Minas.