Herdeiros de mártires: a representação do Monaquismo Eremítico Copta em Atanásio de Alexandria e Jerônimo de Estridão (Séculos III-IV)

Abstract

This research aims to demonstrate the process of developing a martyr stereotype for the hermit Copts monks, through which we believe we can analyze the hagiographic representation drawn to these religious, from textual traces found in primary sources Vita Antonii (357) and Vita Pauli (374-379), written, respectively, by Athanasius of Alexandria (296-373) and Jerome of Stridon (347-420), about the desert monks Anthony the Great (251- 356) and Paul of Thebes (228-330). We understand that the martyrdom of the content is present in this stereotype monastic hermit Copt, introduced by the authors of the sources, this will allow us greater strength in proving our hypothesis about the development of a patristic representation, which aimed to raise the monks as the authentic successors of the martyrs and establishes guidelines and patristic models defined for these religious and those who followed them.