entity_id,canonical_name,greek_name,tradition,entity_type,category,primary_domains,tags,cult_scope,primary_period,evidence_confidence,review_status,inclusion_basis,earth_association_score,chthonic_flag,serpent_flag,short_note,entity_class
ENT_COP_BESA,Besa of Atripe,,Coptic Christian,Saint,Abbot / disciple,"monasticism, hagiography",,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Disciple and successor of Shenoute as head of the White Monastery; author of the Life of Shenoute and of monastic letters, attested by that surviving corpus.",saint
ENT_COP_KYRILLOS_VI,Pope Kyrillos VI,,Coptic Christian,Saint,Patriarch / pope,"Coptic papacy, monastic revival",,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"116th Pope of Alexandria (reigned 1959-1971), monastic-revival reformer, canonized by the Coptic Orthodox Church in 2013; placed in the modern period (re-pointed from the proposed late-antique Coptic period, which ends c.1000, to PER_MODERN_ORTHODOX). A 20th-century figure standing in the continuous Alexandrian papal tradition. Venerated human, not deified.",saint
ENT_COP_MACARIUS,Macarius of Egypt,,Coptic Christian,Saint,Abbot / desert father,desert monasticism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Founder of the monastic settlement of Scetis (Wadi al-Natrun) in the Nitrian desert (d. c.391); attested in the Apophthegmata Patrum and the Lausiac History. Distinct from Macaria (ENT_MACARIA, a Greek goddess - homonym verified in DB) and Macarius of Alexandria. Verified absent from DB. Venerated human.",saint
ENT_COP_MENA_MARTYR,Mena the Wonderworker (Abu Mina),,Coptic Christian,Saint,Martyr / wonderworker,"martyrdom, healing cult, pilgrimage",,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Egyptian (Coptic) reception of the soldier-martyr Menas, centre of the great healing-pilgrimage shrine of Abu Mina west of Alexandria. Cross-links to the existing pan-Orthodox Menas (ENT_ORTH_MENAS, verified in DB) as the same figure venerated in the Coptic tradition; flagged as a homonym/overlap in review.",saint
ENT_COP_MOSES_BLACK,Moses the Black,,Coptic Christian,Saint,Monk / martyr,"desert monasticism, conversion, martyrdom",,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Former brigand turned ascetic of Scetis under Macarius (d. c.405), martyred by raiding Berbers; attested in the Apophthegmata Patrum. Venerated human.",saint
ENT_COP_PACHOMIUS,Pachomius the Great,,Coptic Christian,Saint,Abbot / founder,cenobitic monasticism,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Founder of cenobitic (communal) monasticism at Tabennesi (d. 348); attested by the Coptic and Greek Lives of Pachomius and his surviving Rule. Verified absent from DB. Venerated human.,saint
ENT_COP_SAMUEL_CONFESSOR,Samuel the Confessor,,Coptic Christian,Saint,Abbot / confessor,"monasticism, confession of faith under persecution",,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Seventh-century Coptic abbot of the Monastery of al-Qalamun (the Monastery of St Samuel) in the Fayyum, confessor under Chalcedonian and early Muslim-era pressure; attested by his Coptic Life. Distinct from the prophet Samuel (ENT_ISR_SAMUEL, verified in DB) - homonym noted. Venerated human.",saint
ENT_COP_SHENOUTE,Shenoute the Great,,Coptic Christian,Saint,Abbot / Church Father,"monasticism, Coptic literature, abbacy",,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Archimandrite of the White Monastery near Sohag (d. c.465); the towering author of classical Sahidic Coptic literature, attested by his vast surviving corpus of sermons and letters and by Besa's Life of Shenoute. Venerated human, not deified.",saint