The Commemoration of the Birth of St Mary The First Day of Bashans (May 9) Today, on the first day of the Coptic month of Bashans, we celebrate the birth of the Virgin St Mary. It is the second of the Seven Feasts of St. Mary. The beloved Mother of Jesus Christ was born to...

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 Church of the Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor, Israel Three of the four Gospels describe a miraculous event taking place: the Holy Transfiguration, whereupon three Apostles - St. Peter, St John, and St James - witnessed Jesus transfigured from a regular human appearance to a heavenly being, shining with light, and talking with two long-dead...

Saint George, Prince of Martyrs The commemoration of the martyrdom of the great St George is on the 23rd of Baramouda, which usually corresponds to the first of May. His martyrdom occurred in 307 A.D. As the Coptic Synaxarium tells us, St. George was a young Christian man who went to the Emperor Diocletian, and...

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...