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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Moyses/Moses of Abydos, abbot in Upper Egypt

Saint ID

S01478

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Monastic founders, Ascetics/monks/nuns, Miracle-workers in lifetime
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02450Fragments of a Coptic Encomion with Life and Miracles of Apa *Moyses/Moses (of Abydos, abbot in Upper Egypt, S01478) relating the saint's various visions, his clairvoyance and healing powers, mentioning his celebration of the feast day of Apa *Shenoute of Atripe (abbot of the White Monastery, ob. c. 465, S00688) and his general request that saints' feast days are to be observed; written probably in the 6th/7th c., preserved in manuscripts of the 9th/11thc..
E03584Coptic fragments of an Encomion presenting the Life and Miracles of Apa *Moyses/Moses of Abydos (S01478), relating the story of a miraculously born child, promised and donated at the age of five by his grateful parents to their church, raised and educated by the priest of that church, becoming a monastic founder with the gift of prophecy and the ability to provide healing of body and soul, relating healing miracles also taking place at his burial site. Written probably in the 6th/7th c.