Saint Helena, the Empress St. Helena the Empress made huge contributions to the spread of the new religion of Christianity. She began her life as an ordinary girl of humble Greek/Turkish origins in the mid 3rd century Roman Empire. It happened, by God’s will, that she met an ambitious, high-ranking soldier named Constantius, who was...

St Demiana and the Forty Virgins St. Demiana was the daughter of the governor of a district in the northern delta area in Egypt.          He and his wife were Christians, and raised Demiana to be a faithful Christian too. This was around the end of the third century after the resurrection...

The Commemoration of the Martyrdom of the Great Saint Mark the Evangelist It was on the 30th day of the Coptic month of Baramouda in the year 68 A.D. that St Mark - he who established the first church in Egypt, and he who wrote the Gospel which bears his name - was martyred in Egypt....

Church of the Dormition, Jerusalem The Church of the Dormition is located on Mt Zion. It is built at the location said since ancient times to be the place where St Mary died, and where the Assumption occurred. A beautiful and larger-than-life wood carving of St Mary lies peacefully in a chapel in the lower...

  Pentecost 2020 Pentecost this year falls on June 7, the 30th of the Coptic month of Bashans. The word “Pentecost” literally means “Fiftieth (50th)” in Greek, and originally referred to the ancient Jewish festival which came fifty days after Passover, and is called The Festival of Weeks; in Hebrew, Shavuot. It says in Acts...

The Feast of the Holy Ascension The Commemoration of the Feast of the Holy Ascension of Jesus Christ occurs Forty days after the Resurrection of the Lord. This year, the Ascension Feast occurs on the 20th of the Coptic month of Bashans, which is May 28. There is a very brief mention of the Ascension...