October 14
THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...
WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Callistus I (3rd cent.), pope and martyr (Roman and Ambrosian calendars)
COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (4 babah/teqemt):
Bacchus (d. ca. 300), companion of Sergius, martyr (Coptic Church)
Abreha and Asbeha (4th cent.), king of Axum (Ethiopian Church)
LUTHERANS:
James the Notary (d. ca. 430), martyr in Persia
MARONITES:
Gervasius and Protasius (3rd cent.), martyrs
Callistus I, pope
ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius and Celsus of Milan, martyrs
Cosmas of Maiuma (d. 760), hymn writer
Paraskeve the Younger (10th cent.), nun (Romanian Church)
Abiatar, priest, and Sidonia (4th cent.)
Mirian III (4th cent.), king of Georgia, and Nana his wife (Georgian Church)