Longinus (abbot)

Longinus (fl. 451–457) was the hegumenos (superior or abbot) of the Enaton, a monastic community outside Alexandria in Roman Egypt. He is the subject of a Sahidic Coptic hagiography, the Life of Saints Longinus and Lucius the Ascetics, and a Sahidic homily, In Honour of Longinus, by Bishop . Five vignettes of Longinus are included in the Greek Sayings of the Desert Fathers. The third describes how a woman suffering from breast cancer was cured after an encounter with Longinus:

Longinus (abbot)

Longinus (fl. 451–457) was the hegumenos (superior or abbot) of the Enaton, a monastic community outside Alexandria in Roman Egypt. He is the subject of a Sahidic Coptic hagiography, the Life of Saints Longinus and Lucius the Ascetics, and a Sahidic homily, In Honour of Longinus, by Bishop . Five vignettes of Longinus are included in the Greek Sayings of the Desert Fathers. The third describes how a woman suffering from breast cancer was cured after an encounter with Longinus: