August 22

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Holy Mary, virgin and queen (Roman and Ambrosian calendars)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (16 misra/nahasse):
Assumption of the body of the Virgin into heaven

LUTHERANS:
Symphorian (d. 178), martyr in Bourgogne

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Agathonicus of Nicomedia and caompanions (4th cent.), martyrs
Synaxis of the saints of Solovki (Russian Church)