Longinus (abbot)

Start of the Life of Saints Longinus and Lucius the Ascetics in Morgan, MS M.579, fol. 88v, a manuscript made in Egypt sometime before 30 August 823.

Longinus (Greek: Λογγῖνος; 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 Basil of Oxyrhynchus.[1]

  1. ^ Depuydt 1994.