September 23

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Tecla (1st cent.), virgin and martyr (Spanish-Mozarabic calendar)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (13 tnt/maskaram):
Miracle of Basil of Caesarea (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Maria de Bohorques (d. 1559), witness to the point of bloodshed in Spain

MARONITES:
Announce to Zacharia

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Conception of John, the venerable and glorious prophet, forerunner and baptist