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Pishoy

Egyptian desert father living in the Scetis

SaintByzantine EmpirePre-congregation

Feast: 15 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
320
Died
417
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Pshoi, Paisius the Great, as he has been known in Europe since the 5th century AD, Bishoy, Bishūy, Bishāy or Bishiyyah, as his name is pronounced in Arabic (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲓϣⲱⲓ or more rarely Ⲡⲓϣⲱⲓ Abba Pšoi / Pišoi; Greek: Ὅσιος Παΐσιος ὁ Μέγας; 320 – 417 AD), known in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria as the Star of the Desert and the Beloved of our Good Savior, was a Coptic Desert Father. He is said to have seen Jesus, and been bodily preserved to the present day via incorruptibility at the Monastery of Saint Bishoy in the Nitrian Desert, Egypt.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources
  • Wikidata Q2696973 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Pishoy (CC BY-SA)

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