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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Elias, martyr of Koussai, Middle Egypt

Saint ID

S03105

Reported Death Not After

600

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E07007Two Coptic Encomia on *Klaudios Stratelates (martyr of Alexandria and Antinoopolis, S02667), attributed to Constantine of Assiut, recount seven posthumous miracles of the saint at his shrine at Antinoopolis/Antinoe (Middle Egypt). Written in Coptic, probably at Antinoopolis, at an uncertain date, probably within the later 7th or 8th centuries.