Martyr
Abamun
Martyr of Antinoöpolis
A martyr at Antinoöpolis, remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church.
- Era
- 4th century
- Place
- Antinoöpolis
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Holy Martyr Abamun of Tukh is a Coptic martyr known only from a mention in the Synaxarion of Mikhail of Atrib.
He was from Tukh, in the diocese of Banha. It is said that the archangel Michael visited him and told him that he would be martyred at Ansena. Abamun went to Ansena and there was tortured by the governor Eukhius in various ways: on the rack, with fire, red-hot irons, flogging, flaying and the furnace, until he was finally beheaded. He is also said to have worked a number of miracles. After the execution another Christian, Julius of Aqfahs, wrapped the body in cloths and had it carried back to his homeland, Tukh.
His commemoration is kept on 20 July (13 Abib in the Coptic calendar). A church of Saint Abamun, mentioned at El-Bahnasa in the thirteenth century, was in all likelihood dedicated to him rather than to the martyr of the same name from Tarnut. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in the Coptic Church.