John the Baptist
On this day Saint John the Baptist, son of Zacharias the priest, became a martyr by the hand of Herod the wicked king.
From the Synaxarium
Meskerem 2 · September 12
3 commemorations
Dasya, an Egyptian soldier
On this day died Dasya the soldier, a native of the city of Tayda of Egypt.
Didymus and Marina
The book records the name only.
From the Synaxarium, the Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, in the translation of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1928). Summarised — the full account is longer.
