Name
Sourous, Apa Sourous, superior and holy man at the monastery of Apa Phoibammon on the mountain of Jeme
Saint ID
S01584
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns
ID | Title | E00179 | Coptic child donation document of 19 August 775, certifying the gift of a male child to *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080) at Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt), after the child's healing at the shrine and monastery of Apa Phoibammon on the mountain of Jeme. The parents had pledged the boy to the saint at birth, but had failed to honour the agreement, leading to his severe illness. | E00180 | Coptic child donation document of 765/785, certifying the gift of a male child to *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080) at Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt), after his healing at the shrine and monastery of Apa Phoibammon on the mountain of Jeme. It is one of nine child donation documents reporting a child growing up, falling fatally ill and being miraculously healed through the power of the saint. | E00182 | Coptic child donation document of 12 March 776, certifying the gift of a male child to *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080) at Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt), after having been granted healing at the saint’s shrine located within the monastery of Apa Phoibammon on the mountain of Jeme. It is one of seven child donation documents, which report that a child is pledged to the Saint at birth, by analogy to 1 Samuel 1, but because the parents fail to honour this agreement they are punished with a severe illness of their child. | E00186 | Coptic child donation document of 26 May 770, certifying the gift of a male child to *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080) at Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt), after having been granted healing at the saint’s shrine located within the monastery of Apa Phoibammon on the mountain of Jeme. | E00200 | Coptic child donation document of 5 October 780, certifying the gift of a male child to *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080) at Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt), after having been granted healing at the saint’s shrine located within the monastery of Apa Phoibammon on the mountain of Jeme. | E00205 | Coptic self-donation document of the year 771/772 to *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080) at Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt) after the donor received healing through holy water from the basin located in front of the altar of the shrine located at the monastery of Apa Phoibammon on the mountain of Jeme. | E00229 | Three Coptic land donation documents from the second half of the 8th c., certifying the gift of a field to the saint of the monastery of Apa *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080) at Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt). | E00230 | Two Coptic tree donation documents of around 770, certifying the gift of date-palm trees from private individuals to the saint of the monastery of Apa *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080) at Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt). | E01249 | Coptic joint funerary inscription on marble most likely from the necropolis of the monastery of Apa Ieremias at Saqqara (Lower Egypt) with an invocation to the typical group of saints celebrated at Saqqara: *Ieremias, Enoch and Sibylla (saints of Saqqara, S00773), the Archangels *Michael and *Gabriel (S00181 and S00192),*Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033), *Adam and Zoe/Eve (the first man and woman, S00772), *Apollo, Phib and Anoup (monks and monastic founders, S00774), and other holy men; possibly of the 8th/9th century. | E01251 | Coptic funerary inscription with a long invocation to a large number of saints including *Michael (the Archangel, S00181),*Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033), *Adam and Zoe/Eve (the first man and woman, S00772), the Prophets, the Apostles, the Martyrs and Confessors, and *Apollo, Anoup and Phib (monks and monastic founders, S00774), as well as a long list of other holy monastic figures. The inscription on a limestone stele presumably dates to the 6th/9th century, and most likely comes from Bawit (Middle Egypt). | E04082 | Coptic funerary inscription of unknown Egyptian provenance, invoking a number of saints, such as Apa *Pshoi (probably the martyr of Egypt, S01245), Apa *Paul (S00089), Apa *Sourous (S01584), Apa *Petros (bishop and martyr of Alexandria, S00247), Apa *Biktor (presumably Viktor the martyr of Egypt, son of Romanos, S00749), and Apa *Phobammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080), datable to the 6th/8th century. | E04145 | Coptic ostracon from western Thebes (Upper Egypt) with a letter written by a monk saluting Apa *Sourous (most likely the head of the monastery of Apa Phoibammon, S01584) as a holy man/saint; datable to the first half of the 8th century. | E04329 | Greek document from Babylon (Heliopolites) acknowledging the receipt of a payment from a man/monk associated with *Sourous (possibly S01584); datable to the 7th/8th century. |
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