Pior the Egyptian
Also: Abba Pior
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died perhaps between 373 and 400; the place is not known.
Disciple of Antony who lived alone in the desert between Nitria and Scetis.
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 Pior the Egyptian
These texts are about this person, hold what this person said, or carry this name without good reason. Each page says which.
- Stories of Pior the Egyptian (from Palladius) about or from this personThe chapter on Pior the Egyptian from the Lausiac History of Palladius.523 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pior : 3rd century
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pior : Egypt
- Died not sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pior : Butler says towards the end of the 4th century
- Place of death not known
- Palladius, Lausiac History 39
- Scetis, years not known
- Palladius, Lausiac History 39 gives no years
- Scetis, place not sure
- Palladius, Lausiac History 39 says only that his cell was in the great desert; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pior says Scetis; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727232