nayrouz
What is the feast of nayrouz?
The coptic new year.
What does the word martyr mean?
Someone who died for their faith.
What opportunity does the Coptic new year (Nayrouz) give us in our spiritual lives?
-a fresh start
-repentance
What day does nayrouz fall on?
11th of September.
St. Stephen.
What 2 fruits do we eat during the feast of nayrouz?
-red dates
-guava
Who does the church celebrate on the feast of nayrouz?
The martyrs.
Which martyr is known as the seal of the martyrs?
Pope Peter (17th Pope of Alexandria).
What is the first month of the Coptic calendar?
Thout/Tout
what does the word nayrouz (nee-aro-oo) mean in Coptic?
The rivers
How many martyrs were killed in Libya on the 15th of February 2015?
21.
What time of the year is Nayrouz celebrated?
(hint: in association with the agricultural schedule)
Harvest.
what year was the coptic calendar started?
-153AD
-214AD
-284AD
284AD
Where was St. Mark killed?
Alexandria.
Why was the coptic calendar started in 284AD?
It was the year that Diocletian became emperor.
He persecuted a very large number of christians.