September 12

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Name of the blessed virgin Mary (Ambrosian calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (2 tut/maskaram):
Martyrdom of John the Baptist (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Matthäus Ilicky (d. 1627), witness to the point of bloodshed in Bohemia

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
End of the feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God
Autonomus (d. 313), hieromartyr
Removal of the relics of Alexander Nevskij (1724)
Founding of the relics of Daniel of Moscow (1652; Russian Church)
Gabriel (16th-17th cent.), patriarch of the Serbs, martyr
Synaxis of the holy hierarchs of the Serbian Church (Serbian Church)