5 events found.
-FEAST OF EL-NAYROUZ (BEGINNING OF THE BLESSED COPTIC YEAR)
September 11, 2021 - Tout 1, 1738 Today is the beginning of the blessed Coptic year. It is necessary to keep it a holy day with full purity and chastity. Let us start a new demeanor as St. Paul the Apostle says, Therefeore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old […]
-DEPARTURE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW, THE APOSTLE
September 11, 2021 - Tout 1, 1738 On this day also was the departure of the holy Apostle Bartholomew, one of the twelve disciples. to this Apostle fell the lot that he was to go to the oasis (the great oasis, Al-Khargah). He and Peter went together. There he proceeded and preached to the people. […]
-DEPARTURE OF ST. MELYOS, POPE OF ALEXANDRIA, THE THIRD
September 11, 2021 - Tout 1, 1738 Also on this day in the year 98 A.D., departed St. Melyos, the third Pope of Alexandria after St. Mark. This Saint was appointed in the fifteenth year of the reign of Domitian, the son of Vespian, Emperor of Rome, fifty-five years after the Ascension of our Lord […]
-JOB AND HIS WASHING
September 11, 2021 - Tout 1, 1738 On this day also Job, the righteous man, was washed in water and was healed of all his sickness. The people were then in the habit of dipping themselves in water whereby they were blessed for the rest of the year. May his blessings be upon us all […]
