Pashons 2 - Coptic calendar -

Pashons 4 3 Pashons - Coptic calendar - 5 Pashons Fixed commemorations All fixed commemorations below are observed on 4 Pashons (May 12) by the Coptic Orthodox Church. Saints * Pope John I of Alexandria (221 A.M.), (505 A.D.) *Pope John V of Alexandria ...

The third day of the Coptic month of

Pashons Pashons ( cop, Ⲡⲁϣⲟⲛⲥ, ), also known as Pachon ( grc-gre, Παχών, ''Pakhṓn'') and Bachans. (, ''Bashans''), is the ninth month of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic calendars. It lasts between May 9 and June 7 of the Gregorian calen ...

, the ninth month of the Coptic year. In common years, this day corresponds to April 28, of the

Julian Calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr ...

, and May 11, of the

Gregorian Calendar The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years dif ...

. This day falls in the Coptic Season of

Shemu The Season of the Harvest or Low Water was the third and final season of the lunar and civil Egyptian calendars. It fell after the Season of the Emergence (') and before the spiritually dangerous intercalary month ('), after which the New Yea ...

, the season of the Harvest.

Commemorations

Apostles

* The departure of Saint Jason, one of the Seventy Apostles Synaxarion, Pashons 3, Coptic Reader. https://suscopts.org/coptic-reader/''Coptic Synaxarium''. Saint George Coptic Orthodox Church. 1995. https://stnoufer.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/coptic-synexarium.pdf

Martyrs

*The martyrdom of

Saint Otimus Otimus is a 3rd-century Egyptian martyr and saint. Otimus was born in Fowwa, and later became its priest. After some time, he moved to the mountain of Ansena. When Emperor Diocletian incited his persecution against the Christians, Arianus the ...

, the Priest

Saints

*The departure of Pope Gabriel IV, 86th Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark (1094 A.M.), (1378 A.D.)

References

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