Daysa the Egyptian

Saint Daysa the Egyptian, Martyr (also called Dasya the Soldier), was a Christian martyr of the third century. He was born in Tanda (today Tida, in the Kafr el-⁠Sheikh governorate) in Egypt, and served as a soldier in the Roman army. Because he would not deny Christ, he was tortured by Arianus, governor of Ansena, who inflicted great tortures on him and in the end cut off his head. He is a saint in the Coptic Church and in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. His feast in the Coptic Church is on the second day of the month of Thout, by the Coptic calendar.