Patronage
2 saints are venerated as patrons of Egypt, led by Mark the Evangelist (feast day April 25).
12 — 68 · Feast day: April 25
Author of the earliest Gospel, Mark worked as Peter's interpreter in Rome, shaping Peter's eyewitness preaching into the swift, action-driven narrative that Matthew and Luke would later expand. He founded the Church in Alexandria and became its first bishop before being martyred there around AD 68, dragged through the streets during a pagan festival.
c. 300 AD — 391 AD · Feast day: January 15
A cowherd from the Nile Delta, Macarius the Great became one of the founding fathers of desert monasticism — drawing so many disciples to the Scetic wilderness that the entire Nitrian region came to bear his name. When falsely accused of seduction, he bore the slander in silence for months until God vindicated him through the accuser's own agonized confession, then fled deeper into the desert to escape the fame that followed.