December 18

THE CHURCHES REMEBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Holy Mary (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (9 kiyahk/tahsas):
Poemen (4th cent.), martyr without bloodshed (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Winnebald (d. 761) and Willibald (d. 787), apostles in Franconia

MARONITES:
Daniel (6th cent. BC), prophet

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Sebastian of Rome and companions (d. ca. 287), martyrs
Daniel Sihastrul (d. 1482), hesychast (Romanian Church)

EAST SYRIAN ORTHODOX:
Miracle of the cross of St Thomas (Malabar Church)