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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Dionysios, soldier and martyr, converted by *Isaac of Tiphre

Saint ID

S00445

Gender
Type of Saint
Soldiers
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00696The 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.