death_date death_place birth_place attributes feast_day venerated_in birth_date titles major_shrine article_title name
695 mount qalamoun , egypt daklube , egypt monk with one eye 8 kiahk coptic orthodox church oriental orthodox churches 597 confessor monastery of st. samuel the confessor , egypt samuel the confessor
 saint samuel
samuel the confessor

saint samuel the confessor -lrb- referred to in academic literature as samuel of kalamoun or `` samuel of qalamun '' -rrb- is a coptic orthodox saint , venerated in all oriental orthodox churches .
he is most famous for his torture at the hands of the chalcedonian but monothelite byzantines , for his witness of the arab invasion of egypt , and for having built the monastery that carries his name in mount qalamoun .
he carries the label `` confessor '' because he endured torture for his christian faith , but was not a martyr .
the manuscripts of the coptic text known as the apocalypse of samuel of kalamoun give his name as the author , but the work is in reality a much later composition .
