Bessarion of Egypt
Also: Abba Bessarion, Bessarion the Great
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died: the year and the place are not known.
Wandering Egyptian monk of the fourth century, known from the stories of his disciple Doulas.
Wrote in Coptic.
Places lived
- years not knownScetis (now Wadi El Natrun, Egypt)monkplace not sure
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
Filed here, not written by Bessarion of Egypt
These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.
- Sayings of Bessarion of Egypt about or from this personSayings and short stories of Bessarion of Egypt, taken from the Sayings of the Desert Fathers.742 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessarion_of_Egypt : 4th century
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessarion_of_Egypt : Egypt, no town
- Died not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessarion_of_Egypt : 5th century
- Place of death not known
- no ancient source
- Scetis, years not known
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Bessarion gives no years
- Scetis, place not sure
- Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical collection (English: B. Ward, Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1975), Bessarion 5: he came to the church at Scetis; Bessarion 1-4 show him on the road; he had no fixed cell; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727232