July 23

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

ANGLICANS:
Bridget of Sweden, abbess of Vadstena

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Bridget, religious (Roman and Ambrosian calendars)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (16 abib/hamle):
John the Calabite «of the golden gospel» (5th cent.; Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Bridget of Sweden, mystic in Sweden

MARONITES:
Phocas of Sinope (d. ca. 101), martyr

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Removal of the relics of Phocas of Sinope, hieromartyr
Ezekiel (6th cent. BCE), prophet
Anthony of the Kiev Caves Monastery, father of all the Russian monks (d. 1073; Russian Church)

OLD CATHOLICS:
Bridget of Sweden, widow