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🕊️ Coptic Saints

28 saints of the Coptic Orthodox Church — their lives, their courage, and their love for God.

The Virgin Mary
العذراء مريم
Various — including Kiahk 29 (Annunciation)
The holiest of all women — she said yes to God and gave Jesus to the world.
Saint Mark the Evangelist
القديس مرقس الرسول
Baramouda 30 (May 8)
The author of the second Gospel and the founder of the Coptic Church — a man who gave his life for Christ.
Saint Anthony the Great
القديس أنبا أنطونيوس
Tobi 22 (January 30)
At eighteen, he gave away everything he owned and went into the desert to find God.
Saint Paul of Thebes
القديس أنبا بولا
Amshir 2 (February 9)
He went into the desert before St. Anthony — the very first Christian hermit, friend of lions.
Saint Athanasius the Apostolic
القديس أثناسيوس الرسولي
Baramhat 7 (March 16)
He stood alone against the whole world to defend the truth about Jesus — and the world gave way.
Saint Cyril of Alexandria
القديس كيرلس عمود الدين
Abib 3 (July 10)
He championed the title 'Theotokos' for Mary and wrote some of the most important theology in Christian history.
Saint Bishoy
القديس أنبا بيشوي
Paoni 8 (June 15)
God told him to wash the feet of every stranger — and one night, the stranger was Jesus.
Saint Macarius the Great
القديس أنبا مقاريوس الكبير
Paremhat 27 (April 5)
One of the greatest monks of Egypt — humble, peaceful, and full of miraculous power.
Saint Moses the Black
القديس موسى الأسود
Nasie 5 (September 11)
From violent criminal to peaceful monk and martyr — the most dramatic conversion in the desert.
Saint Mina (Abu Mena)
القديس أبو مينا
Hator 15 (November 24)
A soldier who refused to fight against Christians — and became one of Egypt's greatest saints.
Saint George
القديس جاورجيوس
Baramhat 23 (April 1)
The great soldier-martyr who defeated evil and became a symbol of courage for the whole Church.
Saint Dimyana and the Forty Virgins
القديسة دميانة والأربعين عذراء
Tobi 12 (January 20)
A governor's daughter who chose Christ over royal safety — and inspired forty women to die with her.
Saint Barbara
القديسة بربارة
Kiyahk 8 (December 17)
Her own father turned her in for her faith — and she forgave him as she faced death.
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
القديسة كاترينا
Hator 7 (November 16)
The most brilliant young scholar in Alexandria — who out-argued fifty pagan philosophers and died for her faith.
Saint Shenouda of Atripe
القديس شنودة رئيس المتوحدين
Abib 7 (July 14)
The greatest Coptic writer and spiritual leader of his age — who gave thousands his whole life.
Saint Mercurius (Abu Seifein)
القديس أبو سيفين مرقوريوس
Hator 25 (December 4)
A brilliant soldier who was visited by an angel and received a divine sword — then gave his life for Christ.
Saint John the Short
القديس يوحنا القصير
Paone 20 (June 27)
The shortest monk in the desert — but perhaps the tallest in holiness.
Saint Mary of Egypt
القديسة مريم المصرية
Baramhat 6 (March 15)
She lived a life of sin — then met the Virgin Mary, entered the desert, and became a great saint.
Saint Abanub the Young Martyr
القديس أبانوب
Abib 20 (July 27)
A twelve-year-old boy who walked to his martyrdom — and was strengthened by the Virgin Mary herself.
Saint Pachomius
القديس أنبا باخوميوس
Bashans 14 (May 22)
He built the world's first organized monastery — and gave thousands a way to serve God together.
Saint Samuel the Confessor
القديس أنبا صموئيل المعترف
Misra 8 (August 14)
He refused to sign a heresy at the Council of Chalcedon — and suffered for the truth his whole life.
Pope Kyrillos VI
البابا كيرلس السادس
Bashans 26 (June 3)
The modern Coptic pope who lived in a windmill as a monk — and performed miracles that the whole world witnessed.
Saint Marina (Margaret)
القديسة مارينا
Abib 15 (July 22)
A shepherd girl who faced a terrifying dragon and a cruel governor — and never once gave in.
Saint John the Baptist
القديس يوحنا المعمدان
Paone 30 (July 7 — Nativity)
He leaped in his mother's womb when he heard Mary's voice — and spent his whole life pointing to Jesus.
Saint Stephen the First Martyr
القديس استيفانوس أول الشهداء
Kiyahk 27 (January 5)
The first person to die for Jesus — full of the Holy Spirit and forgiving his killers with his last breath.
Saint Verena of Zurzach
القديسة فيرينا
Nasi 4 (September 10)
A Coptic woman from Egypt who traveled to Switzerland to preach the Gospel — centuries before it was common.
Saint Joseph the Carpenter
القديس يوسف النجار
Bashans 26 (June 3)
He protected the Holy Family with quiet courage and steady faithfulness — a model for fathers everywhere.
Saint Takla Haymanot
القديس تكلا هيمانوت
Nasi 1 (September 7)
He walked across Ethiopia preaching the Gospel — and stood on one leg in prayer for so long that his other leg fell off.
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