March 3

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Hemiterius and Cheledonius (3rd cent.), martyrs (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (24 amsir/yakkatit):
Agapetus (4th cent.), bishop (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
John Frederick the Magnanimous (d. 1554), supporter of the Reformation in Saxony

MARONITES:
Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Kleonikos, Eutropios and Vasiliskos (9th cent.), martyrs
Nicholas (d. 1591), patriarch of the Georgians (Georgian Church)