Name
Merkouria, Decian martyr of Egypt
Saint ID
S00225
Reported Death Not Before
250
Reported Death Not After
251
Gender
Female
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. | E01848 | Fragment of Coptic Miracles of *Merkourios (soldier and martyr of Caesarea of Cappadocia, S00225), effected at his martyr shrine, punishing a thief and showing mercy on him, resulting in a large donation to the shrine, as well as healing a crippled man; composed probably in the 5th/7th c., preserved in a manuscript of the 9th/11th. |
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