August 16

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Stephen of Hungary (d. 1038), king (Roman and Ambrosian calendars)
Roch (14th cent.; Ambrosian calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (10 misra/nahasse):
The Assembly of the first-born children, martyrs
John of Asmun Tanah (?), martyr (Coptic Orthodox Church)

LUTHERANS:
Leonhard Kaiser (d. 1527), witness to the point of bloodshed at Passavia
John the Constant (d. 1532), supporter of the Reformation in Saxony

MARONITES:
Roch, pilgrim

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Translation of the Mandylion to Constantinople (944)
Diomedes the Physician (d. 298), martyr
Anthony of Novgorod (d. 1147), thaumaturge (Russian Church)
Constantine Brancoveanu and companions (d. 1714), martyrs (Romanian Church)
Razhden the Martyr (d. ca. 457; Georgian Church)

WEST SYRIAN ORTHODOX:
Saba (Pigursnap; 4th cent.), martyr in Persia

EAST SYRIAN ORTHODOX:
Joachim and Anne, parents of the blessed virgin Mary (Malabar Church)

OLD CATHOLICS:
Theodulus (4th-5th cent.), bishop