March 13

 

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Leander (d. 600/601), bishop of Seville (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (4 baramhat/maggabit):
Council of Djazirah Beni 'Omr (2nd cent.; Coptic Orthodox Church)
Esichius the Palatine (d. 303), martyr (Coptic Catholic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Georg von Ghese (d. 1559), witness to the point of bloodshed in Northern Italy 

MARONITES:
Theophanes of Sigriano (d. 817)

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Removal of the relics of Nicephoros (847), patriarch of Constantinople