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St. YEHNESS THE Short +He was born in 339 AD. in Thebes city ( Loxur ) . + He became a monk at the hands of ANBA BEMOA in Sheheet Wilderness. + He took a dry stick from his teacher, thrust it in the ground, He watered it every day carrying water from a distance about 12 mile. For three years and became a tree known as a tree of obedience . That tree was found till the beginning of this century + He served with love his teacher ANBA BEMOA in his old age for 12 years without hearing a word of thanks, till ANBA BEMOA said before his death ” This is an angel not a man ”. + God gave him the gift of performing miracles . He arose the dead, healed the sick and drove out devils, even the beasts obeyed him for his obedience to his teacher. + St. ANBA ANTONIOUS, ANBA MAKAR and his godfather ANBA BEMOA appeared to him and told him about his death and that was in 409 A.D. on Sunday.
St. Yehnis kama + He grew up in Shubramanso village ( Kafr-El- Zaiat - Kharbia Governorate ) + He brought up on virtue life from his childhood, when he got married a
girl – by forcibly + A wine tree grew up in their place as a testimony for their righteousness . + The angel called him for monarchism in Shehett wilderness . Then the Lord led him to found a monastery of Abba Yehnis, the short, Many monks gathered around him ( more than 300 monk) . + He was ordained a priest . He saw the fire of Divinity on the alter . + St. Mary appeared to him with the angels and told him that she would be with his children and save them for%is sake to the end and gave him three gold dinars are still found till today . + He caught a fever and recornmended his children, then he gave up his pure spirit in the hands of the Lord in 575 for Martyrs . + There is a souvenir stone, for his death engraved in Coptic, beside his remains in the monastery . The blessing of his prayers be with us all Amen St. Severus, Patriach of Antoich + He was born in Asia Minor at the end of the fifth century . + During his baptism a hand appeared over his head and a voice was heard
saying: Worthy, Worthy, Worthy . + He studied philosophy in Alexandria and became a monk in Syria after Saint Laondious apparition to him . He also received the orthodox fidelity in Rome from St. Basil the great and St. Gregory the theologian . + On his ordain day in 512 A.D. as a patriarch of Antioch, the city was full of a good smell . + He was exiled to Egypt in 518 A.D. for his defence for the faith . + He disguised himself in a monk uniform in one of the churches in Waddy Natrun, during the mass the sacrifice offering disappeared from the alter . after praying and tears, the angel appeared and told the priest about St. Severus presence . He begged the saint to enter the alter . As soon as he entered the sacrifice offering returned back . + He died in Sakha town ( in Egypt ) in 538 . After his death many miracles were performed . Blessing of his Prayer be with us all, Amen St. DIOSCORUS, THE ALEXANDRIAN THE25th POPE + He is the Champion of Orthodoxy as the church surname him . + He was venerable elder . He brought together the deep of theological
study and the christian courage . He was firm in truth and suffered so much for the
faith’sake . + He was born in Alexandria and studied the christian sciences and theology . + He became a pupil and secretary to pope Cyril the 24th, the pillar of the religion . + He was elected and consecrated pope in 449 A.D. + He defended the faith in the second council of Ephesus in 449 A.D. against Eutyches and in the council of constantinople and in the council of Chalcedon . + The queen Pulcheria slapped him on his face and broke two teeth . Also they depilated his beard and he was exiled in Gangra island in Paphlognia in Asia minor . + He attained the crown of confession in his exile in Gangra island and in 457 after five years raising the flag of faith and performing many miracles . Tadrus EI-Meshreky, The Prince + He was born in 275 A.D. He was a prince from the royal family in Antioch . + He is the cousin of Ikladious the martyr, and Saint Boktor the martyr son of Romanious and the intercessor for the prince Tadrus El-Shattby (The Egyptian) + Angel Micheal girded him with a sword, so he always victorious . + He saw a vision, a ladder descend from the heaven till the earth and at the top of the ladder the Lord of the glory and the angels around Him praising and under the ladder he saw a huge dragon (the devil) and said to him ” The Lord would shed your blood by my name you and your friend Laondious, also the persian leader you fight” . + Banikarious the persian leader believed during a truce with Tadrus the prince the leader of the Roman army . + Diocletian the Emperor sent for them and they got the crown of martyrdom: Laondious and Ban- ikarious the persian leader and the faithful soldiers who came with him . As for the Saint, they fastened his body on a tree with nails, then they burnt it . James, The Martyr, cut and per- sian + He was one of court men of king Isagrau, the king
of Persia. + He feared his earthy position in the court when the king began to persecute the Christians . + When his sister and his wife knew that, sent to him to rebuke him for his faith infirmity threatening him to separate themselves from him . + When the saint received the message he regretted for his faith infirmity and wept saying ” If by my such deeds I have become strange from my relatives and my race, how would be the matter with the redeemer who saved me by his blood ” . + The saint left the kingdom to study the Holy Bible. When the king knew his matter he ordered his men to cut his limbs one by one. + Only his head and chest were left behind . however beseeched the lord to be merciful and forgive him for his disability to stand up and raise his hands before him . + Finally they cut his head burnt his body for the miracles done by it . Then the believers took him to Jerusalem midst his family joy . Keriakus and his mother YouIitta + He was the smallest martyr confessed with his
Christianity when he was 3 years old . + His mother grew up in Iconium city ( In Asia Minor ) from a family descend from a race of Asia kings . + His father died when he was still a child . + His mother escaped from the persecution till she reached Tarsus lest her child should be- come an idolater . + However, she was arrested by Tarsus governor . He tortured his a whip . but she refused to return . He kidnapped her child which did not turn his face from his mother but God made him to speak saying: ”Your deities are man-made, there is no God except my master Jesus Christ ”And he cried ” I am Christian, A am Christian ” + The governor provoked and threw him down the stairs, his sanctified head was broken, his mother was glad in joined him after a severe tortures and her head was cut off, Their blessings of prayers be with us all Amen The Forty Martyrs in Sabastia + They were in the Roman division. + They refused to Worship Idols, so they received a lot of torture and
they were stoned + Finally, they were thrown down in a snow lake in the town (in Turkey) beside which there were baths with hot water so that they might give up their faith. + They were thrown down in the lake and during the night forty crowns appeared and a forty angels carrying the crowns put them on the soldiers. + An idolater guard saw that vision while he was warming himself beside the lake and saw that one of the crowns suspended because one of the soldiers became weak and descended in the hot water and died at once. + The idolater Guard descended in the snow lake(in- stead of the weak soldier) after he had announced his faith and took the fortieth crown . In the next day all the Saint bodies were burnt. MARY MAGDALENE’S HAIR + She was called Magdalene in respect to her town
Magdal near Capernaum . + She was Mary the sinner who followed Christ and christ out seven devils from her . She followed and served him even during his suffering, crucifixion, death and burial. + She came early with the other Mary to see the holy sepulchre. + She saw Christ first after his resurrection . He com- mended her to announce the disciples and to go to Galilee to meet him . + After falling on the Holy Spirit she continued to serve the disciples and attained the gifts of the Holy Spirit the comforter. + She preached ( with the disciples ) with the gospel of salvation and brought back many women to the faith with Jesus Christ . The apostles appointed her deacon to baptize the women . + She had got many insults from the Jews then she died peacefully . It is said that she attained the crown of martyrdom . St. MOSES, THE BLACK + He was born in the 4th century. + He was an Abyssinian (Nubian) slave, idolater, killer and robber. + He was not convinced of himself and was not satisfied for what he was doing, so he began to search for God of the universe, and asked himself if it was the sun. And it came to pass, a coptic farmer guided him to go Sheheet Wilderness, and there he would know every thing at the hands of St. Isezerious, the priest of the cells. + St. hezerious took him to St. ABU MAKAR. St. Moses confessed at his hands . St. Abu MAKAR saw an angel erase from a black plate every sin St. Moses confessed till the plate became white after his confession. + St hezerious baptized him in a baptism in ANBA BlSHOI Monastery. + He was modest, hermit, full of kindness beloved to sinners, so he was worthy to be ordained a priest at the hand of pope Thaophelous the 23rd . + He attained the crown of martyrdom at the hands of Barbarians. St. Afram the Syrian + He was the worshiper, the ascetic and the poetical
one . He was one the orthodox + He was born in Nassibane (a town in Iraq) in the outset of the fourth century . + He was accused of adultery, and for his purity the child son of the sin, pronounced (before the bishop and the church) the name of his true father then died immediately . + He was the cause of the repentance of many people and urged them to the way of virtue . + He visited the secetis (his trace is still found in the Syrian monastery that is the ancient tamarind tr~e which is said to have grown from his walking – stick) + He met Saint Basil the great, bishop of Caerism and ordained him a deacon after refusing the priesthood and bishopric . + He went back to Raha (the homeland of his monachism) and wrote against the heretics more than 150 song to stop them . + He died in 373 A.D. he left many beloved prayers so he was called the guitar of the Holy Spirit . His blessing be with us all Amen
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