Dioscurus, Archbishop of Alexandria
On this day died the holy and blessed father Abba Dioscoros, Archbishop of Alexandria; now he was the twenty-fifth archbishop of that city.
From the Synaxarium
Meskerem 7 · September 17
5 commemorations
Death of Severianus, Bishop of Byblos
On this day died the holy father Abba Sawiros (Severianus), Bishop of the city of Gabla (Byblos).
Agathon, Peter, John, Ammon, Ammona, Rebecca, Fasiladas and 2,000 fellow martyrs
On this day Agathon, Peter, John, Ammon, and Ammona and their mother Rapika (Rebecca) became holy martyrs. This holy man came from the city of Konya, on the borders of the district of Kus in Upper Egypt.
Das, Gagra, Nawla, Bishop of Antioch, and Peter the monk
The book records the name only.
Birth of Hanna, mother of the Virgin Mary
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.
