July 24

 

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Bartholomew, apostle (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (17 abib/hamle):
Euphemia of Chalcedon (3rd-4th cent.), martyr (Coptic Church)
Batra Maryam (16th-17 cent.), monk (Ethiopian Church)

LUTHERANS:
Cristopher (d. ca. 250), martyr of Samos
Johann Heinrich Volkening (d. 1877), witness to the faith in Westfalia

MARONITES:
Christine of Tyre (d. ca. 300), martyr

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Christine of Tyre, megalomartyr
Olga-Helen of Kiev (d. 969), equal to the apostles (Russian Church)

OLD CATHOLICS:
Cristopher, martyr