Legendary Christian martyr and popular saint of Coptic Egypt. He was supposedly a Roman soldier of Egyptian parentage serving in Phrygia. As a committed Christian, he was martyred during the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian. His body was brought to Egypt by his military comrades and buried in the Delta at the site now known as Abu Mina.
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