From the Synaxarium
Meskerem 17 · September 27
4 commemorations
On this day is celebrated the festival of the Honorable Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Whom be praise, for this is the day on which the holy woman, the Empress Helena, beloved of God, mother of the righteous Emperor Constantine, revealed the Cross…
On this day the blessed Theognosta died. The holy woman lived in the days of the righteous Emperors Honorius and Arcadius.
The book records the name only.
On this day are commemorated Labiba (Liba), and 'Akiryanos (Cirianus), and Justin, and Tekaseltes (Tekaleltes).
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.
