December 22

 
THE CHURCHES REMEBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Isidore (d. ca. 636), bishop of Seville (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (13 kiyahk/tahsas):
Conception of the Virgin by Anna (Coptic Orthodox Church and Ethiopian Church)
Hadra of Assuan (4th-5th cent.), monk and bishop (Coptic-Catholic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Dwight Liman Moody (d. 1899), preacher of the revival in North America

MARONITES:
Anastasia Pharmacolytria (the Healer) (3rd-4th cent.), martyr

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Anastasia Pharmacolytria (the Healer), megalomartyr