May 5

THE CHURCHES REMEBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Philip, apostle (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (27 barmudah/miyazya):
Victor the General (4th cent.), martyr (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Gotthard (d. 1038), bishop at Hildesheim

MARONITES:
Irene of Maghedon (4th cent.), martyr
Pelagia of Tarsus (4th cent.)

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Irene of Maghedon, megalomartyr