December 12

THE CHURCHES REMEBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Jane Frances de Chantal (d. 1641), religious (Roman and Ambrosian calendars)
Lucy (d. 304), virgin and martyr (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (3 kiyahk/tahsas):
Entrance of the Virgin into the Temple
Abba 'Od (?)
Abba Antony (13th-14th cent.), monk
Zena Marqos (13th-14th cent.), monk (Ethiopian Church)

LUTHERANS:
Vicelinus (d. 1154), apostle in Holstein

MARONITES:
Spiridon the Thaumaturge (d. ca. 348), bishop

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Spyridon the Thaumaturge, bishop of Trimythus
Abibus of Nekresi (4th cent.), bishop (Georgian Church)