Venerable
Longinus of the Enaton
Abbot of the Enaton
Abbot of the Enaton, a monastic community near Alexandria, in the middle of the 5th century.
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Longinus was hegumen of the Enaton, a monastic community outside Alexandria, in Roman Egypt, between the years 451 and 457. The name "Enaton" means "the ninth" in Greek and recalls the ninth milestone from Alexandria.
He is the subject of a life in Sahidic Coptic, the Life of Saints Longinus and Lucius the Ascetics, and of a Sahidic homily, In Honour of Longinus, written by Bishop Basil of Oxyrhynchus.
Our sources do not give the day of his commemoration.