February 26

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (18 amsir/yakkatit):
Meletius (d. 381), patriarch of Antioch (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Mechtilde of Magdeburg (d. ca. 1283), mystic in Saxony

MARONITES:
Porphyrius of Gaza (d. 420); Alexander (d. 344), bishop of Alexandria

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Porphyrius, bishop of Gaza
Symeon the Myrovlyte (d. 1196), Sava's father (Serbian Church)