December 30

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
James, John's brother, apostle (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar; see on July 25)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (21 kiyahk/tahsas):
Barnabas (1st cent.), one of the 70 disciples (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Martin Schalling (d. 1608), poet in High Palatinate and at Nuremberg

MARONITES:
Anysia of Thessaloniki (3rd-4th cent.), martyr

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Anysia, martyr
Habakkuk the Deacon and Paisius the Igumen (19th cent.), neomartyrs (Serbian Church)