The Coptic Synaxarium · Month 2 of 13
Baba
بابه · Paopi
Month of Sowing
11 Октябр – 9 Ноябр
30 days
7 saint commemorations
In Baba the seed goes into the earth: the fields emerge from the flood and Egypt begins her sowing. The Church, still robed in the joy of Nayrouz, continues her commemorations of the martyrs and confessors of the early centuries.
Kept Every Month
Fixed commemorations the Church keeps in every Coptic month
Saints & Feasts of the Month
Every saint commemorated in Baba, ordered by day
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
Муқаддас Матто (Матто) ҳаввориён ва башоратдиҳанда
Муқаддас Матто ҳавворӣ ва башоратдиҳанда, ки пеш аз ин Левии боҷгир буд, дар 12-уми Баба (Бāба) ёд карда мешавад.
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
Муқаддас Луқои Башоратдиҳанда (Инҷилнавис)
Муқаддас Луқои Инҷилнавис дар Синаксари қибтӣ дар 22-юми Бобаҳ ёдоварӣ карда мешавад.
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