Coptic Church recognizes martyrdom of 21 Coptic Christians - Independent Catholic News - Polycarp Lent: February 23rd

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Coptic Church recognizes martyrdom of 21 Coptic Christians

Posted: Sunday, February 22, 2015 10:30 pm

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The Coptic Orthodox Church has announced that the murder of the 21 Egyptian Christians killed by the so-called Islamic State in Libya will be commemorated in its Church calendar. Pope Tawadros II announced that the names of the martyrs will be inserted into the Coptic Synaxarium, the Oriental Church’s equivalent to the Roman Martyrology. This procedure is also equivalent to canonization in the Latin Church. According to terrasanta.net news service,  the martyrdom of the 21 Christians will be commemorated on the 8th Amshir of the Coptic calendar, or 15 February in the Gregorian calendar. The commemoration falls on the feast day of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. The names of the martyrs are: 1. Milad Makeen Zaky 2. Abanub Ayad Atiya 3 Maged Solaimen Shehata 4. Yusu Shukry Yunan 5. Kirollos Shokry Fawzy 6. Bishoy Astafanus Kamel 7. Somaily Astafanus Kamel 8. Malak Ibrahim Sinweet 9. Tawadrps Yusuf Tawadros 10. Girgis Milad Sinweet 11. Mina Fayez Aiziz 12. Hany Abdelmesih Salib 13. Bishoy Adel Khalaf 14. Asmeul Alham Wilson 15. Worker from Awr Village 16. Exat Bishri Naseej 17. Loqa Nagaty 18. Gaber Munir Adley 19. Esam Badir Samir​ 20. Malak Farqg Abram 21. Sareen Salah Farug See also: ICN 21 February 2015 - Brother of slain Egyptian Christians prays for their killers http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=26787 Source: Terra Santa/SAT   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lent: February 23rd Memorial of St. Polycarp of Smyrna, bishop and martyr    Read the Golden Legend account of the life of St. Polycarp and this life of St. Polycarp from The Early Church Fathers website. Read an account of his martyrdom. Read St. Polycarp's Epistle to the Philippians. The Station is in the basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, where the people would assemble towards evening, that they might be present at the ordination of the priests and sacred ministers. This day was called Twelve-Lesson-Saturday, because, formerly, twelve passages from the holy Scriptures were read, as upon Holy Saturday. Built by Constantine in 323, the basilica was erected over the place where St. Peter was buried.

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