Nayrouz — the Coptic New Year
Feast · fast
- Thout 1 (Coptic Orthodox Church)
The Coptic year opens as the Feast of the Martyrs: the era itself is counted from the accession of Diocletian in 284, so the calendar is dated from the persecution rather than from any peace.
After The Coptic Synaxarium.
Where this is recorded
- Coptic Orthodox Church — the day, after Le Synaxaire arabe jacobite (rédaction copte), PO I.3, p. 223 — 1er Tout (29 août)