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 …

The Bishnoi, also spelled as Vishnoi, is a Hindu Vaishnava community or panth found in the Western Thar Desert and northern states of India. Sometimes, it is referred to as a caste. [1] .

St. Bishoy (320-417 A.D.), the great Egyptian desert father who saw our Lord Jesus Christ and whose incorrupt body is preserved to this day at the Coptic Orthodox monastery bearing his …

The Monastery of Saint Pishoy (also spelled Bishoy, Pshoi, or Bishoi),[1] also known as Saint Pishoy Monastery,[2] is a Coptic Orthodox monastery in Wadi El Natrun, [3][4] west of the Nile …

Bishoi (320–417) was a beloved desert father whose exploits never made it into the traditional collections of the desert fathers, the Apophthegmata Patrum (AP).

This definitive volume contains the first English translation of the Greek, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic Lives of Bishoi (Paisios), each translation accompanied by an introduction that …

Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi of Scetis (d. ca. 417) en...

The Egyptian monastic Bishoi is surely among the more obscure holy men of Late Antiquity – if one were to discard Eastern, and more specifically Coptic Christianity. Here, Bishoi remains to …

Bishoi is commemorated in Macarius, John, Bishoi, Maximus and Dometius (Fathers of Egypt) (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/1847] . Bīshōy was monk and superior from the Nitrian Egyptian …

Saint Bishoi was the great Egyptian religious father who beheld an apparition of Lord Jesus Christ, and whose body is preserved at the monastery bearing his name in Shee-Hyt, Egypt, …