July 6, 2022 - Paona 29, 1738 Martyrdom of the Seven Ascetic Saints in Tounar Mount On this day, the seven ascetic saints in Tounar Mount (Tona), were martyred. These were: Basadi, Cotolus, Ardama, Moses, Esey, Parkalas (Mikalas), and a monk called Cotolus. The angel of the Lord had appeared to Sts. Basadi and Cotolus […]

July 6, 2022 - Paona 29, 1738 Martyrdom of Saints Abba Hour and his Mother Theodora On this day also, Sts. Abba Hour and his mother Theodora, were martyred. Abba Hour was a soldier in the army of Antioch. He came to Alexandria, and confessed the Lord Christ before its governor. He commanded that Abba […]

July 7, 2022 - Paona 30, 1738 On this day, the church celebrates the nativity of St. John the Baptist. He whom none born of women was greater. He who kneeled to the Lord Christ while he was still in his mother's womb, and was worthy to lay his hand upon the head of the […]

July 8, 2022 - Epep 1, 1738 On this day, St. Febronia, the ascetic virgin, was martyred. This saint was the niece of the superior of a convent that had fifty virgins, in a place called Ouryana in Mesopotamia. Her aunt brought her up in the fear of God and taught her the reading of […]

July 8, 2022 - Epep 1, 1738 On this day also, the fighters Sts. Bioukha and Banayen, departed. They were priests in the church of Tunah of the diocese of Tanda. Their father was the steward of this church. It happened when the priest Banayen was celebrating the Divine Liturgy, someone came calling him to […]