Name
Besas, Decian martyr of Egypt
Saint ID
S00220
Reported Death Not Before
250
Reported Death Not After
251
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Soldiers
| ID | Title | E00277 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (6.41-42), quotes a letter in Greek by Dionysios, bishop of Alexandria (Egypt), who, in 250/1, informs Phabios, bishop of Antioch (Syria), about martyrdoms in Egypt during the recent Decian persecution; 27 martyrs are named. Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E01849 | Fragment from the beginning of a Coptic Martyrdom of *Besamon (soldier and martyr of Egypt, S00938),recounts how the saint, in response to the imperial edict ordering sacrifice, refused to serve any longer and confronted the emperor. Written probably in the 5th/7th c., preserved in a manuscript of the 9th/11th c. |
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