Moura

Holy Martyr Moura, also called Mart Moura, is a martyr of Egypt honoured in Egypt and the Middle East, from the third century.

According to Father Youakim Moubarac, Moura was a Christian of Upper Egypt, married to a deacon named Timothy. When Diocletian came to power and wished to erase every trace of Christianity, the governor Urban called on Timothy and his wife to turn to paganism. They refused with courage, were crucified and died slowly, around the year 283. It is also supposed that the martyrdom took place under Decius. Their martyrdom happened at Ansena, a city of Upper Egypt known as Antinoöpolis, in the Roman Thebaid.

She is commemorated on 3 May and 25 September, and in the Coptic Church on 5 Hathor and 8 Pashons; the Maronite calendar has her on 10 October and 25 September. Several churches are dedicated to her, above all in northern Lebanon, and at Ehden there is a monastery bearing her name, in which the Lebanese Maronite Order was founded in 1694. She is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church.