The Coptic Synaxarium · Month 11 of 13
Epip
أبيب · Epēp
Month of the Apostles' Feast
8 ཟླ་བ་བདུན་པ་ – 6 ཟླ་བ་བརྒྱད་པ་
30 days
32 saint commemorations
Epip closes the fast of the Apostles with their feast on its fifth day, the martyrdom of Peter and Paul. The Nile swells through its weeks, and the Synaxarium fills with apostles, martyrs, and the fathers who watered Egypt with their prayers.
Kept Every Month
Fixed commemorations the Church keeps in every Coptic month
Saints & Feasts of the Month
Every saint commemorated in Epip, ordered by day
2 Epip
Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲓⲟⲩⲇⲁⲥ Ⲑⲁⲇⲇⲉⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ
Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲓⲟⲩⲇⲁⲥ Ⲑⲁⲇⲇⲉⲟⲥ, ⲫⲏ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲙⲟⲩϯ ⲉⲣⲟϥ ⲟⲛ ϫⲉ Ⲗⲉⲃⲃⲉⲟⲥ ⲛⲉⲙ Ⲑⲁⲇⲇⲉⲟⲥ, ⲥⲉⲉⲣⲡⲉϥⲙⲉⲩⲓ ⲉⲣⲟϥ ϩⲱⲥ ⲟⲩⲁⲓ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲓⲙⲏⲧ ⲥⲛⲁⲩ, ⲟⲩⲟϩ ⲥⲉⲉⲣⲡⲉϥϣⲁⲓ ϧⲉⲛ ⲥⲟⲩ ⲃ̅ ⲛ̅ⲧⲉ Ⲡⲓⲁⲃⲓⲡ.
5 Epip
Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ
Ϣⲁⲣⲉ ⲡⲓⲤⲩⲛⲁⲝⲁⲣⲓⲟⲛ ⲛⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲢⲉⲙⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲉⲣ ⲫⲙⲉⲩⲓ ⲙⲡⲓⲀⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ ⲉⲑⲟⲩⲁⲃ Ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲡⲓⲀⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ ⲉⲑⲟⲩⲁⲃ Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲓⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲉ́ ⲛⲧⲉ ⲡⲓⲁⲃⲟⲧ Ⲉⲡⲏⲡ ⲉⲑⲃⲉ ⲡⲟⲩⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲓⲁ.
5 Epip
སྐུ་ཚབ་པ་བདུན་ཅུ།
ཉིན་མོ་འདི་ལ་སྐུ་ཚབ་པ་བདུན་ཅུའི་གྲས་ཀྱི་གཅིག་ཡིན་པ་དམ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཕི་རིས་ཀ་འམ་ཨོ་ནི་སི་ཕོ་རུ་ས་ཞི་བར་གཤེགས། སྐུ་ཚབ་པ་འདི་ནི་བེན་ཡ་མིན་གྱི་རིགས་རྒྱུད་ནས་བྱུང་བའི་ཨིས་ར་ཨེལ་པ་ཞིག་ཡིན།
6 Epip
སྐུ་དམ་པ་ཨའུ་ལིམ་པཱས་སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་
སྐུ་དམ་པ་ཨའུ་ལིམ་པཱས་སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་ནི་ཁོབ་ཊི་ཀ་ཐོ་ལིཀ་གི་སེན་ཀ་སཱ་རི་ཡོམ་(དྲན་གསོ་དེབ་ཐེར)དུ་ཟླ་བ་ཨ་བིབ་ཚེས་༦ ཉིན་དྲན་གསོ་ཞུ་བ་ཡིན།
7 Epip
St. Shenouda the Archimandrite
The Archimandrite Abba Shenouda was the abbot of the hite Monastery of Atribe in the desert of Thebes for more than 65 years. He ruled over 2200 monks and 1800 nuns
8 Epip
Saints Piroou and Athom
On this day also, St. Piroou and St. Athom were martyred. These two Saints were born in the city of "Sonbat", of Christian parents who were righteous, loving works of righteousness and charitable deeds. Their father's name was John and their mother's was Mary. St
8 Epip
St. Asterias the Priest
8 Epip
དམ་པ་བི་ཤོ་ཡི། (ཨན་བ་བི་ཤོ་ཡི།)
ཉིན་མོ་འདི་ལ། རྗེས་དྲན་གུས་པར་འོས་པ། དགོན་པའི་སྐར་མ་སྟེ། དམ་པ་བི་ཤོ་ཡི་སྐུ་འདས་སོ། ཁོང་ནི་ཨེ་ཇིབ་ཀྱི་ཤན་ས་ཞེས་པའི་གྲོང་དུ་འཁྲུངས་ཤིང་། ཁོང་ལ་སྤུན་མཆེད་དྲུག་ཡོད་དོ།
9 Epip
Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲥⲓⲙⲱⲛ Ⲕⲗⲱⲡⲁ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ
Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲥⲓⲙⲱⲛ Ⲕⲗⲱⲡⲁ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ ⲥⲉⲉⲣ ⲡⲉϥⲙⲉⲩⲓ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲓⲤⲩⲛⲁⲝⲁⲣⲓⲟⲛ ⲛⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲢⲉⲙⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲥⲟⲩ Ⲯⲓⲧ ⲙⲡⲓⲁⲃⲟⲧ Ⲉⲡⲏⲡ.
11 Epip
Saints Isaiah and Poesius the Spaniards
الآباء إشعياء وبسويس الأسبانيان *
11 Epip
St. Abba Isaiah of Scetis
St. Abba Isaiah of Scetis * With St. Arsenius — Lessons in Spiritual Struggle — His Counsels to Novices — Prayer — Spiritual Struggle — Befriending the Great — Chastity and Guarding the Senses — Repentance — Love — Not Judging
11 Epip
St. Nofer, the Hermit
القديس أبو نفر السائح | الأنبا نوفير * في دير الأشمونين انطلاقه في البرية مع القديس بفنوتي نياحته
11 Epip
St. Pelagia the Penitent Hermit
On this day also, St. Pelagia, departed. This righteous woman was born in the city of Antioch to pagan parents. Besides a corrupt faith, she had a corrupt manner of life also. She met a holy bishop, whose name was Paul, who preached to her
11 Epip
St. Thomas the Hermit
The Monastery of St. Anba Thomas the Hermit is an ancient archaeological monastery dating from the fourth century A.D., located in the village of Arab Bani Wasel at the foot of the Eastern Mountain, about 16 kilometers north of the city of Akhmim. (Fourth century A.D.) St. Anba Thomas the Hermit was born in the village of Shenshif…
11 Epip
དམ་པ་ཕའུ་ལོ་ཐོག་མའི་དབེན་གནས་པ་ (ཨན་བ་ བོ་ལ)
དམ་པ་ཨན་བ་ཕའུ་ལོ་ནི་སྭ་སྭ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གཙོ་བོ་སྟེ། དབེན་གནས་པ་ཐོག་མ་ཡིན་ཞིང་། བོ་ལ་ཨལ་ཏི་བི་ཞེས་ཀྱང་གྲགས། ཁོང་གི་བྱུང་རབས་དང་། དམ་པ་ཨན་ཏོ་ནིའུ་དང་མཇལ་འཕྲད་བྱུང་བའི་གཏམ་རྒྱུད་ནི་འདི་ལྟར་རོ།
12 Epip
Abba Hour El-Siriakousy
On this day also, St. Abba Hour, was martyred. He was born in Siriakous to a father, who was an iron worker. He wished to become a martyr, so he went to El-Farma where he confessed the Lord Christ before its Governor
15 Epip
Saints Cyriacus and Julitta
الشهيدان قرياقوس وجوليتا | قرياقص و يوليطة | يوليطا * القديسة يوليطة إلى سلوكية ثم إلى طرسوس دعوة للاستشهاد محاكمة يوليطا استشهاد الطفل كيرياكوس استشهاد القديسة يوليتة جسدا الشهيدين
18 Epip
Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲓⲁⲕⲱⲃⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲉ Ⲓⲗⲏ̄ⲙ̄
Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲓⲁⲕⲱⲃⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲉ Ⲓⲗⲏ̄ⲙ̄, ⲥⲉⲉⲣ ⲡⲉϥⲙⲉⲩⲓ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲓⲤⲩⲛⲁⲝⲁⲣⲓⲟⲛ ⲛⲣⲉⲙⲛⲭⲏⲙⲓ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲓ-18 ⲛⲁⲃⲓⲃ.
19 Epip
Anba Andrew
On this day, St. Andrew the Apostle, the brother of St. Peter, was martyred. He was chosen to go to the city of Lydd and to Kurdistan. He entered the city of Lydd, where most of its people had believed at the hands of St. Peter
22 Epip
St. Basilides (Wasilides)
On this day, the great St. Macarius, the son of Basilidis the Chancellor , was martyred. When the messengers reviewed the order of Emperor Diocletian, which dictates the worship of idols, with Macarius, he did not heed them
22 Epip
St. Macarius of Alexandria
St. Macarius of Alexandria * (Abba Macar | Abba Macarius | Abba Macara the Alexandrian | Macarius the Younger) His upbringing; his asceticism and worship; his instruction of the Pachomians through labor; with Lydia the solitary; his clarity of vision; the war of vainglory; the cluster of grapes; his miracles…
22 Epip
St. Macarius the Great / Abu Makar
القديس مقاريوس الكبير | الأنبا مكاريوس الكبير أو الأنبا مقارة | أبو مقار الكبير | الأنبا مكاري الكبير * نشأته وزواجه في الإسقيط حبه للوحدة رجل الحب مواهبه القديس مقاريوس والمرأتان نياحته من أقواله
23 Epip
St. Ignatius of Antioch Theophoros
On this day also, St. Ignatius was martyred in Rome in the year 107 A.D. He was chosen Bishop for Antioch, succeeding St. Peter the Apostle, in the year 69 A.D., during the reign of Emperor Trajan
23 Epip
Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲛⲁ ϯⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲏ
Ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲁⲓⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲟⲛ, ⲧⲉⲛⲉⲣⲫⲙⲉⲩⲓ ⲙⲡⲓⲙⲁⲣⲧⲩⲣⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲉ ϯⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲛⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲛⲁ, ⲑⲏ ⲉⲧⲁⲥϭⲣⲟ ⲉⲡⲓⲇⲓⲁⲃⲟⲗⲟⲥ. Ⲛⲉ ⲟⲩⲓ ⲡⲉ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ϧⲉⲛ ⲛⲓϣⲉⲣⲓ ⲛⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲁⲣⲭⲱⲛ ⲛⲧⲉ Ⲁⲛⲧⲓⲟⲭⲓⲁ. Ⲛⲉ ϩⲁⲛⲉⲑⲛⲓⲕⲟⲥ ⲛⲉ ⲛⲉⲥⲓⲟϯ. Ⲟⲩⲟϩ ϩⲟⲧⲉ ⲉⲧⲁⲥⲉⲛⲕⲟⲧ ⲛϫⲉ ⲧⲉⲥⲙⲁⲩ, ⲁ ⲡⲉⲥⲓⲱⲧ ⲟⲩⲟⲣⲡⲥ ⲉⲟⲩⲥϩⲓⲙⲓ ⲉⲑⲣⲉⲥϣⲁⲛⲟⲩϣⲥ, ⲟⲩⲟϩ ⲛⲉ ⲟⲩⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲓⲁⲛⲏ ⲧⲉ ⲑⲏ ⲉⲧⲉⲙⲙⲁⲩ.
25 Epip
Isaac of Nineveh
25 Epip
Pope Isaac of Alexandria / Isaac the Just
On this day, of the year 679 A.D., the great holy father Anba Isaac, 41st Pope of Alexandria, departed. This father was born in El-Borolos from rich, God-fearing parents. They begot him long after their marriage
25 Epip
St. Isaac of Shama
25 Epip
St. Isaac the Confessor
حياة هذا المتوحد
25 Epip
St. Isaac the Priest of the Cells
On this day, the church commemorates the holy father Abba Isaac, the priest of El-Qalali (Cells). He was born in an Egyptian village from poor parents, but he was rich in his righteous works
25 Epip
St. Isaac the Syrian
القديس إسحق السرياني | ماراسحق أسقف نينوى | القديس مار إسحاق النينوي * (القرن السادس/السابع الميلادي) من كلماته
25 Epip
St. Thecla, St. Paul's Disciple
القديسة تكلة الشهيدة الأولى | القديسة تقله العجائبية * إيمانها اهتمامها ببولس في السجن وسط الأتون عذاباتها في إنطاكية في جبال القلمون تنقلاتها نياحتها
27 Epip
Abba Fam
On this day, was the consecration of the church of St. Abba Fam. May his intercession be with us. Amen. 2. The Martyrdom of St. Apamon (Abba Amoun). On this day also, St. Apamon (Abba Amoun) , who was from the city of Tarnut, was martyred