-INAUGURATION OF THE NEW ST. MARK CATHEDRAL IN THE MONASTERY OF ANBA ROWAIS

June 25, 2022 - Paona 18, 1738 On this day, of the year 1684 A.M., that coincided with Tuesday the 25th of June, 1968 A.D., and in the tenth year of the papacy of Pope Kyrillos the Sixth, 116th Pope of Alexandria, the holy church celebrates the inauguration of the new St. Mark Cathedral in […]

-DEPARTURE OF ST.DAMIANOS, THE 35TH POPE OF ALEXANDRIA

June 25, 2022 - Paona 18, 1738 Departure of St.Damianos, the 35th Pope of Alexandria On this day also, of the year 321 A.M. (June 25th, 605 A.D.) St. Damianos, 35th Pope of Alexandria, departed. He became a monk in his early years in the desert of Scete. He continued to fight and to devote […]

-DEPARTURE OF POPE ARCHELAUS, THE EIGHTEENTH POPE OF ALEXANDRIA

June 26, 2022 - Paona 19, 1738 On this day also, of the year 28 A.M. (June, 312 A.D.) Pope Archelaus, the Eighteenth Pope of Alexandria, departed. He was a priest in the church of Alexandria. When Pope Peter the first, the seal of martyrs, received the crown of martyrdom, the believers in Alexandria agreed […]

-MARTYRDOM OF ST. GEORGE (GIRGIS) KNOWN AS EL-MEZAHEM

June 26, 2022 - Paona 19, 1738 This day also, in the year 675 A.M. (June, 959 A.D.), marks the martyrdom of St. George, the new martyr, known as El-Mezahem. His father was a Moslem bedouin. He married a Christian woman from the city of Demerah El-kibliah. He had from her three sons, one of […]