August 31

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

ANGLICANS:
Aidan (d. ca. 651), bishop of Lindisfarne, missionary

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Abbondio (d. 469) and Felix (4th cent.), bishops of Como (Ambrosian calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (25 misra/nahasse):
Bessarion the Great (4th cent.), monk (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
John Bunyan (d. 1688), preacher of the revival in England
Ludwig Zimmermann (d. 1906), witness to the point of bloodshed in Latvia

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
The placing of the honorable sash of the most holy Mother of God in the church of Chalkoprateia (4th-5th cent.)
John of Rila (9th-10th cent.), anchorite (Serbian Church)
Christodulus the monk (12th cent.; Georgian Church)

WEST SYRIAN ORTHODOX:
Gabriel of Bet Qustan (7th cent.), igumen and bishop