Name
Makarios 'the Egyptian', monastic founder in the Sketis, ob. 391
Saint ID
S00863
Reported Death Not Before
390
Reported Death Not After
391
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Monastic founders, Miracle-workers in lifetime, Ascetics/monks/nuns
| ID | Title | E00217 | Fulgentius, bishop of Ruspe, in his treatise On the Truth of Predestination, refers to holy monks of Egypt, whom he knows most probably from monastic hagiography, as examples of saintly life. Contains references to *Paul (the First Anchorite, S00089), *Antony ('the Great', monk of Egypt, ob. 356, S00098), *Hilarion (anchorite in Palestine and Cyprus, ob. 371, S00099), *Makarios (probably Makarios 'the Egyptian', monastic founder in the Sketis, ob.391, S00863), and *Ioannes/John (probably of Lycopolis, anchorite of Egypt, S00102). Written in Latin in Ruspe (Byzacena, central North Africa), c. 523. | E01645 | A short anecdote from the Coptic Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) presents the monk *Makarios ('the Egyptian', monastic founder in the Sketis, ob. 391, S00863) of the Sketis (Wadi Natrun, Lower Egypt) as a miracle worker who raised a man from the dead to ask him a question, before letting him go back to rest; 4th/6th century. | E01646 | A short anecdote from the Coptic Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) presents the monk *Makarios ('the Egyptian, monastic founder of the Sketis, ob. 391, S00863) of the Sketis (Wadi Natrun, Lower Egypt) as a miracle healer; 4th/6th century. | E01736 | A Coptic list of holy books belonging to the monastery of Apa *Elijah/Elias (probably the Old Testament prophet, S00217) 'on the mountain', presumably at Aphroditopolis/Atfih (Middle Egypt), lists a papyrus manuscript containing the Life of *Makarios ('the Egyptian', monastic founder in the Sketis, ob. 391, S00863); list datable to the 7th/8th century. | E02887 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 21 January the dedication of the Monastery of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036), *Timothy (the disciple of Paul the Apostle, S00466), *Makarios (probably Makarios 'the Egyptian', monastic founder in the Sketis, ob. 391, S00863), and *Maximos the Confessor (S01455). | E03176 | Palladius of Helenopolis writes the Lausiac History, a collection of short narratives and teachings of male and female ascetics in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Asia Minor, and Italy, commissioned by the patrician Lausos. Written in Greek at Aspuna or Ankyra (both Galatia, central Asia Minor), 419/420. Overview entry | E03318 | Palladius of Helenopolis, in his Lausiac History (17), recounts the story of *Makarios the Egyptian (monastic founder in the Sketis, Lower Egypt, ob. 391, S00863), including miracles of exorcism and the possible raising of a dead person. Written in Greek at Aspuna or Ankyra (both Galatia, central Asia Minor), 419/420. | E03558 | An anonymous monk of Jerusalem writes the History of the Monks in Egypt, a collection of stories about holy men and monastic communities, which he recorded during a visit to the monasteries of Egypt in 394/5. It is the first monastic collection in Christian literature. Written in Greek at Jerusalem, 395/397. Overview entry. | E04012 | Socrates, in his Ecclesiastical History (4.23), refers to the stories of several holy monastics from Egypt, based on information from the History of the Monks in Egypt and the Lausiac History. He also reports that the Egyptian monk Ammonios (ascetic of Kellia, buried near Constantinople, ob. 403, S01263) visited the shrines of the Apostles *Peter and *Paul (S00036 and S00008) in Rome in 339/345. Written in Greek at Constantinople, 439/446. | E04146 | Coptic ostracon from western Thebes (Upper Egypt) referring to Apa *Antonios (Antony 'the Great', monk of Egypt, ob. 356, S00098) as a luminous column, and alluding to him and Apa *Makarios ('the Egyptian', monastic founder of the Sketis, ob. 391, S00863) as model holy men, and mentioning how Apa *Paphnoutios (Egyptian saint, precise identity uncertain, S00882) had needed council with Antony; datable to the first half of the 8th century. | E05276 | The Coptic Life of *Samuel of Kalamun (monk, monastic founder and healing saint, S01991), presented by Isaak, a monk and priest at the monastery of *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033) founded by Samuel at Kalamun (in the Fayum) on the saint’s feast day, relates his asceticism and sanctity, his visions of angels, his special bond with the Virgin Mary to whom he dedicated his monastic church, his gift of prophecy, and his miraculous healing powers, referring to the ascetic as a martyr without being beheaded. Written presumably at Kalamun in the later 8th c. | E06067 | Gennadius of Marseille, in his De viris illustribus ('On distinguished men'), states that *Makarios ('the Egyptian', monastic founder in the Sketis, ob. 391, S00863), and *Euagrios of Pontus (ascetic in Egypt, ob. 399, S01418) performed miracles. Written in Latin at Marseille (southern Gaul), c. 468. |
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