March 15

 

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (6 baramhat/maggabit):
Dioscorus of Alexandria (7th-8th cent.), martyr (Coptic Orthodox Church)
Theodotus of Ancyra (d. 303), martyr (Coptic Catholic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Caspar Olevianus (d. 1587), theologian in the Palatinate

MARONITES:
Benedict of Nursia (d. 547), monk

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Agapios of Caesarea and companions (d. 303), martyrs
Arsenius (d. 1409), bishop of Tver' (Russian and Serbian Churches)
Ambrose Chelaia (d. 1927), patriarch (Georgian Church)