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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Makarios, bishop of Tkow/Antaeopolis (Upper Egypt)

Saint ID

S02004

Reported Death Not Before

444

Reported Death Not After

454

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
"Confessors"
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E05275The Coptic Encomion on *Makarios (bishop of Tkow/Antaeopolis (Upper Egypt), ob. mid-5th c., S02004), attributed to Dioskoros of Alexandria, relates, among many other things, miracles performed by the bishop as well as his gift of prophecy and miraculous events taking place at his burial in the shrine of *John the Baptist (S00020) and the prophet *Elisha (S00239) at Alexandria. Probably written after the end of the 6th c.