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Hor, Apa

By René-Georges Coquin

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Feast day
4 Ba'unah
Author
René-Georges Coquin
Printed pages
1255a

hor, apa, a saint who was a hermit (feast day: 4 Ba’unah). He is mentioned in the Calendar of Abu al-Barakat (1913, p. 272). He is also mentioned in the Copto-Arabic synaxarion. There is a further mention in the Life of Abu Phis (unpublished MS Lit. 23 of the library of the church of harit zuwaylah; Muyser. 1943, p. 187). His Life is also preserved in two manuscripts in the National Library, Paris (Arabe 212, fol. 276r; 477, fol. 250r).

Apa Hor was a native of Bahjurah, but the location of "the mountain with the column, to the east" where he established his hermitage is not known.

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Abu al-Barakat. Calendrier, ed. E. Tisserant. PO 10. Paris, 1913. Muyser, J. "Ermite pérégrinant et pèlerin infatigable." Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologic Copte 9 (1943):159-236. RENÉ-GEORGES COQUIN