The Saints of Egypt
, by O'Leary, De LacyNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780766192164 | 0766192164
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/30/2005
1937. The text aims at providing a compendium of information about the martyrs and other saints honored in the Coptic Church, for the most part following the biographies given in the Jacobite (Egyptian) Synaxarium, but with some additional matter necessary to illustrate those lives. Contents Part I: Foundation of the Church of Alexandria and List of Patriarchs; The Coptic Language; The Egyptian Martyrs; Egyptian Monasticism; Sources for the Lives of the Saints; Coptic Calendar; and Part II. Brief Accounts of the Egyptian Martyrs and other Saints Commemorated in the Synaxarium, Arranged Alphabetically.