Name
Isaac of Tiphre, martyr of the Nile Delta
Saint ID
S00441
Number in BH
O 542
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Children, Miracle-workers in lifetime
| ID | Title | E00696 | The Coptic Martyrdom of *Isaak of Tiphre (martyr of Tiphre in the Nile delta, S00441), claiming to be an eyewitness account, includes a list of benefits promised to the saint’s devotees, including healing at his shrine, and describes the construction of the saint’s oratory. Known through three manuscripts in the Bohairic dialect of the 9th-10th c., one seemingly copied from a manuscript giving a date for the year 399. | E00732 | Two Greek receipts probably from the Herakleopolite nome (Middle Egypt), mentioning a presbyter and oikonomos of an institution dedicated to Apa *Isaac (perhaps Isaak of Tiphre, martyr of the Nile delta, S00441); datable to the 6th/7th c. |
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