-MARTYRDOM OF ST.SARAH, AND HER TWO SONS

May 3, 2022 - Baramouda 25, 1738 On this day, St. Sarah and her two sons, were martyred. She was from the city of Antioch, the wife of a man whose name was Socrates, one of the governors of Emperor Diocletian. This Governor had denied Christ to please Diocletian, pretending before his wife that he […]

-DEPARTURE OF POPE YOUANNIS VII, 78TH PATRIARCH

May 4, 2022 - Baramouda 26, 1738 On this day also, of the year 1009 A.M. (April 21st, 1293 A.D.), Pope Youannis VII, 78th Patriarch, departed. After the lay leaders of Cairo had nominated Pope Gabriel III for the Papacy, some of the lay leaders of Egypt agreed to choose Youannis Ebn Abi-Saaid El-Soukary. They […]

-MARTYRDOM OF ST.SOUSENYOS

May 4, 2022 - Baramouda 26, 1738 On this day, St. Sousenyos was martyred. This Saint was the son of one of the friends of Emperor Diocletian. The angel of the Lord appeared to him and strengthened his heart on receiving the crown of martyrdom, and he kept this in his heart. The Emperor sent […]

-MARTYRDOM OF ST.BOCTOR EBN ROMANUS

May 5, 2022 - Baramouda 27, 1738 On this day, which coincided with the 26th. of April 68 A.D., the great apostle St. Mark, the evangelist of the land of Egypt, was martyred. He was the first Pope of Alexandria and one of the Seventy Apostles. His name was John, as the Holy Bible says: […]

-MARTYRDOM OF ST.MILLIUS, THE ASCETIC

May 6, 2022 - Baramouda 28, 1738 On this day, St. Milius, the ascetic, was martyred. This father was an ascetic and fighter all the days of his life. He dwelt in a cave with his two disciples in mount Khurasan. The two sons of the king of Khurasan went out to hunt wild animals […]