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The Apostles Feast
The Church celebrates the memory of the martyrdom of St. Peter and St.
Paul on the 5th of Abib, which is the 12th of July. This feast is called in ur Church by the name of "the Feast of the Apostles". Its date is unchanged in every year.
The Church venerates these two apostles very profoundly; and raises them and honors them exceedingly; especially in the prayer of the partition" or "the division" which pertains to the fast of the apostles nd to the feast of the apostles, which we pray during the holy mass.
These two saints represent two distinguished kinds as regards the ersonality, the mission, and the style. Each one of them has distinct haracteristics.
Arch Angel Michael
Arch Angel Michael
Saint George
The youth followed his father's example by joining the army soon after coming of age. He proved to be a good soldier and consequently rose through the military ranks of the time. By his late twenties he had gained the title of tribunus (Tribune) and then comes (Count), at which time George was stationed in Nicomedia as a member of the personal guard attached to Roman Emperor Diocletian.
Saint Abanoub
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Joshua, the son of Nun, saw the honored Archangel Michael, the head of the hosts of heaven, who stands at all times before the great throne of God, interceding on behalf of the human race in great glory, and was frightened by him and fell on his face to the earth and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries? So he said, No; but as Commander of the army of the Lord... I have given Jericho into your hand, ... and its king (Joshua 5:13-15; 6:2). 
St. George was born to a Christian family during the late third century. His father was from Cappadocia and served as an officer of the Roman army. His mother was from Lydda, Iudaea (now Lod, Israel). She returned to her native city as a widow along with her young son, where she provided him with an education.
Abanoub was born in a town called Nehisa in the Nile Delta. He was the only son of good Christian parents who died when he was a young child. At the age of twelve, Abanoub entered the church to hear the priest asking the congregation to remain faithful during the persecutions provoked by Diocletian, the Roman emperor.