Name
Kyros, Apa Kyros, Egyptian anchorite, brother of the emperor Theodosius
Saint ID
S01932
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Hermits/recluses
| ID | Title | E04077 | Coptic funerary inscription from unknown Egyptian provenance, invoking God to take care of a presbyter of Apa *Kyros (S01932); datable to the 6th–8th century. | E05116 | Coptic Life of Apa *Kyros (S01932), written by Apa Pambo, monk and presbyter of the church at Sketis (Wadi Natrun), written to establish it as a text read out in church, relating Apa Pambo’s excursion into the inner desert searching for this remotest of monks, illustrating his humility and witnessing the miraculous arrival of Christ, the anchorite’s death, as well as the burial undertaken by Christ himself; written perhaps during the 5th/6th c. |
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