Death of Macarius, Archbishop of Alexandria
On this day died the holy father, Abba Macarius, Archbishop of Alexandria; now he was the sixty-ninth archbishop of the city.
From the Synaxarium
Meskerem 4 · September 14
2 commemorations
Simon the Anchorite, Joshua the son of Nun, 'Ardase the Archbishop, 150 martyrs in Antioch, 'Enteya, and Theodore
On this day are commemorated Simon the anchorite, and Joshua the son of Nun, the disciple of Moses, and 'Ardase the archbishop, and 150 martyrs who suffered in Antioch, and 'Enteya, one of the Seventy, of the people of 'Ensena, and Theodore the bishop, from Debra 'Eldanu, and theologian.
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.
