The Coptic Synaxarium · Month 10 of 13
Paona
بؤونة · Paōni
Month of Archangel Michael's Feast
8 Juni – 7 Julai
30 days
15 saint commemorations
Paona brings the first heat of summer and the whisper of the rising Nile. Its twelfth day is the great feast of Archangel Michael, intercessor for the river's flood, and through its weeks the Church often walks the fast of the Apostles.
Kept Every Month
Fixed commemorations the Church keeps in every Coptic month
Saints & Feasts of the Month
Every saint commemorated in Paona, ordered by day
2 Paona
St. John the Baptist
On this day we celebrate the commemoration of the appearance of the head of St. John the Baptist. Herod commanded his head to be cut off and brought on a platter and given to Herodias, according to her request
3 Paona
Abouna Yassa Mikhael
In the village of Kom Gharib in Upper Egypt, the life of Yassa Mikhael began without the sound of trumpets. He was born into a devout family around 1877, and from childhood the church became the place where his heart learned to breathe. He loved Scripture, hymns, and the mysteries of the Church.
3 Paona
Mtakatifu Georgi wa Kapadokia | Mar Girgis Mrumi
Mtakatifu Georgi wa Kapadokia | Mar Girgis Mrumi * Wakati wa kuuawa kwake kishahidi Malezi yake Mkuu Georgi Mrumi Upendo wa liwali kwake Bidii ya mkuu Georgi Mbele ya mfalme Mwenye nguvu kuliko uchawi na sumu Katika hekalu la sanamu Mwenye nguvu kuliko kila kishawishi!
5 Paona
Anba Bshay (Ebsoy) and Anba Botros (Peter)
On this day also, the two great Sts. Anba Bshay (Ebsoy) and Anba Botros (Peter) were martyred. Their relics are located in Sedfah, the governorate of Asyut. May their prayers be with us. Amen. 3. The Commemoration of the Consecration of the church of St
12 Paona
Malaika Mkuu Mikaeli
12 Paona
Pope Justus of Alexandria
On this day also, of the year 135 A.D., St. Justus, the Sixth Pope of the See of St. Mark , departed. This saint was an honorable and learned man before his ordination. He was baptized by St. Mark the Apostle, along with his father, his mother and others. St
13 Paona
Malaika Mkuu Gabrieli
Siku hii, kanisa huadhimisha kumbukumbu ya Malaika Mkuu Gabrieli mtangazaji, kwa kuwa heshima yake ni kuu mbele za Mungu; alistahili kuutangaza uzazi wa Mwana wake wa Pekee kwa Bikira Mtakatifu Maria.
13 Paona
St. Acacios, Bishop of Jerusalem
15 Paona
Mtakatifu Marko Mtume
Mtakatifu Marko Mtume na Mwinjilisti, Mhubiri wa Imani ya Kikristo katika Afrika. Mtakatifu Marko alikuwa mzaliwa wa eneo la Libya katika Afrika ya Kaskazini. Alizaliwa katika mji wa Kirene huko Pentapoli, sehemu ya magharibi ya Libya, magharibi mwa mpaka wa Misri.
16 Paona
Abouna Salib Ava Mina
Before he was known as Abouna Salib Ava Mina, he was Emil Aziz, born on 12 June 1925. His story does not begin in the desert, but in the disciplined world of family, school, church service, and work.
19 Paona
St. George El-Mozahem
Mozahem first learned longing before he learned the words for it. He was a boy in a divided house: his father belonged to one faith and his mother to another, and Egypt itself seemed to carry many such divisions in its streets, markets, and villages. Yet his mother did not argue him into Christ.
22 Paona
Pope Damian of Alexandria
قداسة البابا دميانوس البابا الخامس والثلاثون * في دير باتيرون باباويته حفظ الإيمان المستقيم
24 Paona
Mtakatifu Musa Mweusi (Abba Musa Mwenye Nguvu)
Anba Musa Mweusi (karibu 332–407 BK): mtumwa na kiongozi wa wanyang'anyi aliyetubu mikononi mwa watakatifu Isidoro na Makario Mkuu katika jangwa la Sketis, akawa mtawa, kasisi na baba wa ndugu mia tano, na mmoja wa alama maarufu zaidi za toba katika historia ya Kanisa. Aliuawa kishahidi na Waberberi pamoja na ndugu saba, na mwili wake upo sasa katika Monasteri ya El-Baramous.
27 Paona
Mtakatifu Anania Mtume
Siku hii Mtakatifu Aristobulo, mmoja wa mitume sabini waliochaguliwa na kutumwa na Bwana kuhubiri kabla ya mateso yake, alikufa kishahidi.
29 Paona
Abba Hour and his Mother Theodora
On this day also, Sts. Abba Hour and his mother Theodora, were martyred. Abba Hour was a soldier in the army of Antioch. He came to Alexandria, and confessed the Lord Christ before its governor