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Hor, Besoy, and Daydara

Christian martyrs

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ5901393 ↗
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Abba Hor (Coptic: ϩⲱⲣ), Besoy (Coptic: ⲯⲟⲓ; also known as Psoi and Absahi), and Daydara (Coptic: ⲑⲉⲟⲇⲱⲣⲁ; also known as Didra or Theodora) were Christian martyrs in Egypt in the fourth century.

Hor was a soldier. With his brother Besoy, he confessed to his belief in Christianity at Alexandria during the Diocletian Persecution.

Hor was subjected to prolonged torture before being pierced by a lance. Besoy was decapitated. Their mother, Daydara, died under torture.

They are regarded as saints, with a feast day of 23 June in the Coptic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East.

Besoy also has a separate feast day on 24 August.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hor, Besoy, and Daydara” as christian martyrs. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 107-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Besoy, Daydara and Christian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hor, Besoy, and Daydara” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.