The Coptic Synaxarium · Month 8 of 13
Baramouda
برمودة · Parmoute
Month of Harvest & Resurrection Joy
9 April – 8 May
30 days
12 saint commemorations
Baramouda is the month of the ripened ear: barley beaten on the threshing floor while the days of Pascha and the Resurrection so often fall within it. Fasting gives way to the joy of the empty tomb, and the valley itself seems to keep the feast.
Kept Every Month
Fixed commemorations the Church keeps in every Coptic month
Saints & Feasts of the Month
Every saint commemorated in Baramouda, ordered by day
2 Baramouda
Ὁ ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος ὁ ἀπόστολος, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου
Ὁ ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου καὶ ἀδελφὸς τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰωάννου, ἐστὶν ὁ ἀπόστολος ὁ μαρτυρήσας ὑπὸ Ἡρῴδου καὶ μνημονευόμενος τῇ δευτέρᾳ τοῦ Βαρμουδᾶ.
6 Baramouda
Abouna Abdel-Mesih El-Manahry
Abdel-Mesih El-Manahry began life far from fame. He was born around 1892 in the Minya region, in Abu Shehata near Matai, to Christian parents named Henein and Esther. The boy, remembered in many sources as Samaan, worked with animals and fields rather than classrooms. Yet the desert was already calling him.
6 Baramouda
Ἁγία Μαρία ἡ Αἰγυπτία
11 Baramouda
Saints Abahor, Ababishai and Theodora
الشهداء أباهور و أبا بيشاي و ديودوره أمهما *
18 Baramouda
St. Arsenius Sousnius' Slave
On this day St. Arsenius, the slave of St. Sousnyous, was martyred. When Emperor Diocletian was torturing St. Sousnyous, St. Sousnyous father told the Emperor that Sousnyous had a slave, whose name is Arsenius and that he worshiped Christ and denounced the worship of the idols
21 Baramouda
St. Aristides of Athens / Aristides the Apologist
21 Baramouda
St. Athenagoras the Philosopher / Athenagoras of Athens
22 Baramouda
Pope Alexander I of Alexandria
On this day also of the year 44 A.M. (April 17th., 328 A.D.) the holy father Pope Alexander (Alexandros), 19th Pope of the See of St. Mark, departed. This Pope was born in the city of Alexandria from Christian parents, and he grew up in serving the church
26 Baramouda
Pope Youannis VII
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
26 Baramouda
St. Apolides the Patriarch
28 Baramouda
St. Alexandra of Rome / Alexandra the Empress
On this day also, St. Alexandra, the Empress, Emperor Diocletian's wife, departed. When the great martyr, St. George deluded Emperor Diocletian that he would worship his idols, the Emperor embraced his head and brought him into his royal palace
29 Baramouda
Ἔραστος ὁ Ἀπόστολος, ὁ Ἅγιος
Ὁ ἅγιος Ἔραστος ὁ Ἀπόστολος μνημονεύεται ἐν τῷ Κοπτικῷ Συναξαρίῳ τῇ κθʹ τοῦ Βαρμοῦδα μηνός.