Theodorus of Tabennese (c. 314 – 368), also known as Abba Theodorus and Theodore the Sanctified was the spiritual successor to Pachomius and played a...
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Saint Theodore (redirect from Saint Theodorus)
saint St. Theodore of Heraclea or St. Theodore Stratelates (281-319), military saint St. Theodorus of Tabennese (c. 314–368), disciple of Saint Pachomius...
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Dymphna (category Christian female saints of the Middle Ages)
martyred by her father. The story of Dymphna was first recorded in the 13th century by a canon of the Church of Aubert of Avranches at Cambrai, France. It...
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Seven Archangels (redirect from Seven Princes of Heaven)
The concept of Seven Archangels is found in some works of early Jewish literature and in Christianity. In those texts, they are referenced as the angels...
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James the Great (redirect from James son of Zebedee)
romanized: Yaʿqōḇ; died AD 44) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was the second of the apostles to die (after Judas...
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Our Lady of Zeitoun, also known simply as El-Zeitoun, Zeitun or rarely Our Lady of Light, was a mass Marian apparition that was reported to have occurred...
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Saint Mercurius (redirect from Marcorios, the martyr of the Lord)
– 250 AD) was a Roman soldier of Scythian descent who became a Christian saint and martyr. He was born in the city of Eskentos in Cappadocia, in Eastern...
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Michael (archangel) (redirect from Michael, Military Orders of Saint)
surviving mentions of his name are in third- and second-century-BC Jewish works, often but not always apocalyptic, where he is the chief of the angels and...
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Philip the Apostle (redirect from Philip of Bethsaida)
Φίλιππος; Aramaic: ܦܝܠܝܦܘܣ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲗⲓⲡⲡⲟⲥ, Philippos) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Later Christian traditions...
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Theodorus of Egypt (died ~340) was a Coptic Christian monk and hermit who lived in the time of emperor Constantine the Great. Very little is known of...
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Raphael (archangel) (category Book of Tobit)
of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both estimated to date from between the 3rd and 2nd century BCE. In later Jewish tradition, he became identified as one of the...
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in the Roman Martyrology, with Victor of Solothurn on 30 September. The Life of Ursus was written by Eucherius of Lyon in the 5th century; it recounts...
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Simon the Zealot (category Year of birth unknown)
ⲥⲓⲙⲱⲛ ⲡⲓ-ⲕⲁⲛⲁⲛⲉⲟⲥ; Classical Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ ܩܢܢܝܐ) was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected...
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John the Apostle (redirect from John the Apostle of Love)
Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Generally listed as the youngest apostle, he was the son of Zebedee and Salome...
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Pachomius the Great (redirect from Rule of Pachomius)
as a renewer of the church, along with his contemporary (and fellow desert saint), Anthony of Egypt on 17 January. The name Pachomius is of Coptic origin:...
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rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Zadkiel (Hebrew: צִדְקִיאֵל Ṣīḏqīʾēl, 'God is my Righteousness')...
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Sariel (category Angels in the Book of Enoch)
course of the moon. The fallen watcher Sariel, according to the Book of Enoch, was one of the leaders of angels who lusted after the daughters of men. They...
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Bartholomew the Apostle (category Catholicoi of Armenia)
the Apostle is remembered in the Church of England with a Festival on 24 August. The 6th-century writer Theodorus Lector averred that in about 507, the...
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Saint Apollonia (category History of dentistry)
jə]) was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians prior to the persecution of Decius. According...
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Jude the Apostle (redirect from Jude of James)
of Coptic letters. Jude (Greek: Ἰούδας Ἰακώβου translit. Ioúdas Iakóbou; Syriac/Aramaic: ܝܗܘܕܐ translit. Yahwada) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus...
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Demiana (category Burials at the Church of the Holy Virgin (Babylon El-Darag))
Coptic martyr of the early fourth century. Near the end of the third century, there lived a Christian named Mark. He was the governor of el-Borollos, el-Zaafaran...
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Pachomian monasteries (section List of monasteries)
superiors of the Koinonia is given below. Pachomius (329–9 May 346) Petronius (9 May 346–21 July 346) Horsiesius (21 July 346–350) Theodorus of Tabennese (350–27...
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Marina the Monk (redirect from St. Mary of Alexandria)
other symbols instead of Coptic letters. Marina, distinguished as Marina the Monk and also known as Marinos, Pelagia and Mary of Alexandria (Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ...
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Matthew the Apostle (redirect from Matthew (disciple of Jesus))
as one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. According to Christian traditions, he was also one of the four Evangelists as author of the Gospel of Matthew...
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romanized: Ya'qūb bin Halfā) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, appearing under this name in all three of the Synoptic Gospels' lists of the apostles. He is generally...
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Severus ibn al-Muqaffa (redirect from Bishop Severus of Al-Ashmunain)
ساويرس بن المقفع, romanized: Sawirus ibn al-Muqaffa; died 987) or Severus of El Ashmunein (ساويرس الأشمونين) was a Coptic Orthodox bishop, author and historian...
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Mark the Evangelist (redirect from Patron of Venice)
traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Modern Bible scholars have concluded that the Gospel of Mark was written by an anonymous author...
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Matthias the Apostle (category Year of birth unknown)
rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. Matthias (/məˈθaɪəs/; Koine Greek: Μαθθίας, Maththías [maθˈθi...
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John the Evangelist (redirect from Cross of Saint John)
traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John. Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter...
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