Pishoy information

Saint

Bishoy (Paisios the Great)
Saint; Bishoy (Paisios the Great)
	Coptic Icon of St. Bishoy, including scenes from his life
Bishoy, Star of the Desert, Beloved of our Good Savior
Born	320; Shansa, Egypt
Died	15 July 417; Mountain of Ansena, Egypt
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodox Churches; Eastern Catholic Church; Oriental Orthodox Churches
Major shrine	Monastery of Saint Bishoy; Scetes, Egypt
Feast	8 Epip (Coptic Orthodox Church) and; 30 November Eastern Catholic Church; 19 June Eastern Orthodox;
Attributes	Monk carrying Jesus, Monk washing the feet of Jesus

Bishoy of Scetis (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲓϣⲱⲓ Abba Pišoi; Greek: Ὅσιος Παΐσιος ὁ Μέγας; 320 – 417 AD^[1]), 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. He is venerated by the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Church, and is known in the latter under the Greek version of his name, Paisios.^[2]

^ Vivian, Tim; Mikhail, Maged S. A. (2022). The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-1-61797-999-6.
^ "Paisios the Great" Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine, Online Chapel, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, retrieved 12-10-2009

[1] Vivian, Tim; Mikhail, Maged S. A. (2022). The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-1-61797-999-6.

[2] "Paisios the Great" Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine, Online Chapel, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, retrieved 12-10-2009

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