![]() The name of the father of this saint was Yonis. On this day the great saint Theodore was martyred. This synaxarium version will serve as a starting point of finding more about the Egyptian martyr and saint. I will do the translation, which I hope to be as faithful to the Arabic text as possible, in short paragraphs, with each one including a separate thought. ![]() The reader can see an example here, which is in the website of the Coptic Orthodox Church Network. I will give an English translation here since the online saint’s life which is sponsored by Coptic churches in the west is altered incorporating some elements from other sources. When one compares this Life with those found in Coptic language manuscripts (which we will talk about later), it is clear that it is a condensed Life, basically a summary of the saint’s life as we find it in the detailed available manuscripts. 666-668: Les mois de Baounah, Abib, Mésoré et jours complémentaires, which the reader can access here. Theodore the General is published in P.O. The best edition is that of the French Rène Basset which was published in five volumes of Patrologia Orientalis (tomes 1, 3, 11, 16, and 17) from 1907 to 1923, under the title Synaxaire Arabe-Jacobite. No English-speaking scholar has edited the Coptic synaxarium but it was translated into Latin, German and French. Theodore the General on the 20 th of Epip, an event which is mentioned in the Coptic synaxarium.
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