Zacharias
On this day Saint Zacharias the priest, the son of Berachiah, was martyred by the hand of Herod the king. When the angel Gabriel announced to this priest the birth of John his son, he did not believe his word.
From the Synaxarium
Meskerem 8 · September 18
4 commemorations
Death of Moses
On this day died Moses the prophet and righteous man, and head of the Prophets. This prophet labored with the people of God, and he suffered tribulation with them until [his] death and he delivered up his soul.
Dimasius, Lucianus, Jeremiah , 'Andewa, 'Elyanos and 'Ammon
On this day are commemorated: Lucianus the martyr, 'Ermeyas (Jeremiah), and the nobles 'Andewa and 'Elyanos, and 'Ammon the monk.
On this day Dimasyos (Dimasius) became a martyr. This holy man was from the city of Derseba on the borders of Dantu to the north of the land of Egypt, he loved the Church, and the poor, and he visited the sick.
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.
