Het Koptische Synaxarium · Maand 2 van 13
Baba
بابه · Paopi
Maand van het zaaien
11 oktober – 9 november
30 dagen
7 heiligengedachtenissen
In Baba gaat het zaad de aarde in: de velden komen uit de overstroming tevoorschijn en Egypte begint te zaaien. De Kerk, nog gehuld in de vreugde van Nayrouz, zet haar gedachtenissen voort van de martelaren en belijders van de vroege eeuwen.
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Vaste gedachtenissen die de Kerk in elke Koptische maand houdt
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Elke heilige die in Baba wordt herdacht, geordend per dag
1 Baba
St. Anastasia
On this day, of the year 304 A.D., St. Anastasia, was martyred. She was born in the city of Rome in the year 275 A.D., to a pagan father whose name was "Britastanos" and a Christian mother whose name was "Flavia"
12 Baba
Sint Matteüs de Apostel en Evangelist
Sint Matteüs de Apostel en Evangelist, voorheen Levi de tollenaar, wordt herdacht op 12 Baba.
15 Baba
St. Panteleimon
On this day of the year 405 A.D., St. Panteleimon (Bandleamon), who was from the city of Nicomedia, was martyred. His father worshipped idols but his mother was a Christian. They educated him well and taught him the profession of medicine
20 Baba
St. John the Short
On this day, the great light and saint, the hegumen Abba John (Yoannis) Colobos (the Short), departed. He was a native of Betsa in upper Egypt and he had one brother. His parents were righteous and God-fearing people, rich in faith and good deeds
21 Baba
Tamav Erene
In Girga, in Upper Egypt, a girl named Fawzia learned prayer before she learned how heavy life could become. She saw it in her mother's corner of the house, where the Agpeya was not a book kept for emergencies but a rhythm of breath.
22 Baba
Sint-Lucas de Evangelist
Sint-Lucas de Evangelist wordt in het Koptische Synaxarium herdacht op 22 Baba.
23 Baba
Abba Dionysius
On this day (March 8th, 264 A.D.) the great father Abba Dionysius, the fourteenth Pope of Alexandria, departed. His parents were stare worshippers of the Sun (Sabians) and they put emphasis on teaching him all the knowledge of that sect