♱Daily Synaxarium ♱Monday, July 13, 2026translated

On this day, the Holy Church commemorates:

*A comprehensive memorial to Gabriel the Archangel.*Saint Stephen of Saba.*The Persian Martyr Golindoch.*The Persian Martyr Cyrene.*The Righteous Saint Sarah of Egypt.*The Righteous Saints Heliophotos and his Cypriot Companions.*The Confessor Saint Afganius of Carthage.*The Righteous Saint Mildred of England.*Our Venerable Father In Saints Julian Senomanes.

✤ Saint Sarah the Egyptian ✤

The saint lived in the wilderness of Egypt around the fifth century AD. She resisted the demon of adultery for thirteen years. She would not pray for the war of the flesh to stop. On the contrary, she approached the ritual with the fear of God and was repeating, “Oh God, give me strength.” One day the temptation became severe for her, so she went out in front of her cell, and suddenly the spirit of adultery appeared to her physically and said to her, “You, Sarah, have overcome me.” She replied: “It was not me who defeated you, but my teacher, Christ.” It was said about her that she stayed near the Nile River for sixty years and never turned her eyes to look at it because she was completely absorbed in prayer. She used to say: “I lift a man up the stairs and keep death before my eyes before I climb on it.” She also said to brothers who came to visit her: “I am a man, not by nature but by thought, and you are women.”