October 22

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Cosmas and Damian (d. ca. 303), martyrs (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (12 bàbah/teqemt):
Matthew, apostle and evangelist

LUTHERANS:
Jeremias Gotthelf (d. 1854), parish priest and poet in Switzerland

MARONITES:
Mark (2nd cent.), bishop of Jerusalem

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Abercius of Hierapolis (3rd cent.), equal-to-the-apostles and thaumaturge
17 children of Ephesus (d. ca. 250)
Stephen the Blind (d. 1477), Serbian monarch (Serbian Church)