Encomium on Saint Helias by Stephen of Hnes

Encomium on Saint Helias (editor's title: l'encomium de l'évêque Stéphanos de Hnès sur Saint Hélias) · Stephen, bishop of Hnes (Heracleopolis Magna) · author's date unknown; preserved in Coptic Museum, Hamuli Ms. 2703, ff. 34r-47 · homily

Coptic · domain: hagiography · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Same edition as the martyrdom: Sobhy 1919 prints the Coptic with a French translation, and the HOLLIS record carries no English (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,martyre%20de%20saint%20Helias%20copte&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English encomium on Helias appears in HOLLIS keyword searches or in the Coptic Scriptorium corpus, whose TEI header records translation 'none' (https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/corpora/tree/master/helias). The Budge corpora contain encomia on Victor, Demetrius, Mercurius, Michael and Raphael, but none on Helias (table of contents: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Coptic%20martyrdoms%20etc%20in%20the%20dialect%20of%20Upper%20Egypt%20Budge&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Hagiographic panegyric (encomium) delivered in honour of the martyr Helias, preserved in the same Hamuli codex as the passio; 4,432 Coptic token count in the CS TEI. Listed under genre 'homily' because it is a rhetorical sermon, but it belongs to the hagiographic dossier of Helias and is paired with the martyrdom above.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Le Martyre de Saint Hélias et l'encomium de l'évêque Stéphanos de Hnès sur Saint Hélias · Bibliothèque d'études coptes 1 · Georgy Sobhy (edition with French translation) · 1919

Electronic text

Source and licence
Coptic Scriptorium · TEI XML · CC-BY 4.0 urn:cts:copticLit:helias.encomium.sobhy_ed

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Stephen bishop of Hnes Encomium on Saint Helias by Stephen of Hnes — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
Le Martyre de Saint Hélias et l'encomium de l'évèque Stéphanos de Hnès sur Saint Hélias · 1919 · fre	"Le Martyre de Saint Hélias et l'encomium de l'évèque Stéphanos de Hnès sur Saint Hélias." Le Caire, Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1919. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990033387220203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Encomium on Saint Helias by Stephen of Hnes” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-stephen-hnes-encomium-helias