The Coptic Synaxarium · Month 1 of 13
Tout
توت · Thoout
Month of Nayrouz & the New Year
11 Sàttumbar – 10 Oktoobar
30 days
17 saint commemorations
Tout opens the Coptic year with the Feast of Nayrouz, the crowning of the martyrs whose blood sowed the Church of Egypt. As the Nile's blessing waters recede and the land is renewed, the Church sings for a new year of grace.
Kept Every Month
Fixed commemorations the Church keeps in every Coptic month
Saints & Feasts of the Month
Every saint commemorated in Tout, ordered by day
5 Tout
St. Sophia and the Fifty Virgins
On this day, the holy, and pure fifty virgins and their mother Sophia, were martyred. These saints were from different countries. Divine love and ascetic life had brought them together and they lived in a convent for virgins in El-Raha. St
6 Tout
St. Basilissa
On this day also, St. Basilissa was martyred in the days of Diocletian the infidel. This saint was a pious Christian, and she was only nine years old. They seized her and bound her hands and feet and cast her in the fire, but she was not burned by the might of God
7 Tout
Saints Asclapius and his brother Dioscorus / Dioscorus and Sclapius
ديسقورس وأسكلابيوس حياتهما النسكية سيامتهما موجة الاضطهاد نزول القديسين إلى أخميم في السجن زكريا وأبوه مع أولجيوس وجنده خلاص أرمانيوس
7 Tout
St. Agathon
8 Tout
St. Dimides
On this day also, St. Diomede (Dimides), was martyred. He was from Dershaba (1) of the chair of Dantu. He loved the church, was kind to the poor and visited the sick
10 Tout
St. Matruna
On this day St. Matruna, who was a maid-servant to a Jewish lady, was martyred. She was of Christian parents, and her mistress used to entice her to adopt the Hebrew religion, but she refused
13 Tout
Pope Mattheos II
On this day of the year 1182 of martyrs, the honored father Abba Mattheos (Matthias) the Second, 90th Pope of the See of St. Mark, departed. He was a monk in El-Muharraq monastery. He was chosen and enthroned in the year 1169 A.M. He sat on the throne of St
14 Tout
St. Agathon, the Stylite
رهبنته انطلاقه إلى سخا
19 Tout
St. Gregory Nazianzen / Gregory of Nazianzus
(Saint Gregory the Theologian, or the Theologos; the Nazianzen, the Nizianzen, the Nazianzene, the Nazienzen; the Cappadocian Theologian) His upbringing in Nazianzus His ordination as bishop in Constantinople His writings From his sayings
19 Tout
St. Gregory of Nyssa / St. Gregory Nyssen
On this day also, of the year 396 A.D., St. Gregory of Nyssa, the brother of St. Basil the Great, departed. This great father of the church was virtuous and so were his brothers. He was very well versed in the art of discourse and in the Greek language
19 Tout
St. Gregory the Monk
21 Tout
Seriñ bu sell Maryaama Theotokos (Yaayu Yàlla)
22 Tout
Saints Kotylas, Axoua and Tatas
On this day, Saints Cotylas (Kobtlas) and his sister Axoua, the children of Sapor, King of Persia, and Cotylas' friend, Tatas, were martyred. Sapor worshipped fire and the sun
22 Tout
St. Abadir and Saint Herai his sister
On this day, Sts. Abadir (Apater) and Eraee (Herai), his sister, the children of Wasilides, the minister of Antioch, were martyred. Abadir was appointed Esfeh-selar (a high ranking governmental position) in his father's position
22 Tout
St. Julius of Aqfahs
During the age of Diocletian, when Egypt was filling with the names of martyrs, one Christian man was given an unusual ministry. Julius of Aqfahs was not first remembered because he died, but because he refused to let the deaths of others disappear. He had wealth, influence, and many servants who could read and write.
25 Tout
St. Maurice and the Theban Legion
Maurice was a soldier before he was a symbol. The tradition places his beginnings in Thebes, in Upper Egypt, where the Nile valley had already given the Church monks, martyrs, and ordinary believers who learned to confess Christ under pressure.
26 Tout
St. Zacharias
On this day St. Zacharias, the priest, was martyred by the hand of Herod the King. When the angel Gabriel announced to him the birth of John his Son, he did not believe his word and the angel made him dumb, unable to speak until the child was born