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#425084 01/27/25 01:19 PM
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Greetings to all Christians of the East and West and congratulations on your ecumenical and evangelizing work! I am new here on the forum, please forgive the spelling mistakes, I am Brazilian and I do not know how to write very well in English.
In the Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church (1928) translated by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge from the Synaxarium of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, I found the following entry in Ginbot 29 (June 6): "And on this day also are commemorated Abba ‘Afse, and Abba Guba, who were of the ninety saints of ‘Engelga, and Isaac, the monk, and the death of Alexander the king, the son of Philip".
I am left with doubts as to whether this refers to the memory of Alexander the Great, whether he is commemorated as a saint on this day, whether Ethiopian Christians have him as one of their saints, or even whether there is any public or private cult of Alexander the Great as a Saint.

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Christ is in our midst!!

Erik Jedvardsson,

Welcome to the forum. We hope your time with us is spiritually enriching.

You post an interesting question. Thanks for that.

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The Oriental Churches tend to include all kinds of non Church persons in their prayers for the dead. This is very likely Alexander the Great being remembered but not as a saint necessarily, just commemorated on the death anniversary, which is said to be 10/11 June 323BC.. likely Syriac influence, as the Syriac liturgy retains elements of apocatastasis in many prayers


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