August 23

The churches remember...

 THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Rose of Lima (d. 1617), virgin (Roman and Ambrosian calendar)
Claude and companions (d. 285), martyrs of Egea (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (17 misra/nahasse*:
James of Mangug (3rd cent.), martyr (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Gaspard de Coligny (d. 1572), witness to the point of bloodshed in France

MARONITES:
Isaac the Syrian, disciple of Ephrem (4th-5th cent.), confessor

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
End of the feast of the Dormition; Lupus of Thessaloniki (d. ca. 306), martyr

WEST SYRIAN ORTHODOX:
Paul of Edessa (d. ca. 619), bishop