Wafiadini wa Shiheet

(walifariki 444) ni kati ya Wakristo bora wa Misri waliofia dini yao kwa kuuawa na wazushi.

Walikuwa wamonaki 47 na walei 2.

Tangu kale wanaheshimiwa na Waorthodoksi wa Mashariki kama watakatifu wafiadiniHugh G. Evelyn White, The Monasteries of the Wâdi ’n Natrûn, Part II: The Histories of the Monasteries of Nitria and of Scetis (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1932; repr. Arno Press, 1973), pp. 164–167..

Sikukuu yao huadhimishwa tarehe 21 JanuariThe martyrs are commemorated in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion on the 26th day of the month of Tobi (corresponding to January 21 in the Julian calendar). In the liturgy, they are referred to as "the forty-nine martyrs, the elders of Shiheet". The main source for the martyrdom of the Forty-Nine is the account in the Synaxarium itself. There is also a short notice of the burial and afterlife of the martyrs, the Coptic Depositio XLIX martyrum (Interment of the Forty-Nine Martyrs)..

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Tanbihi

Jamii:Waliofariki 444
Jamii:Wafiadini Wakristo
Category:Watakatifu wa Misri