October 2

 

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

WESTERN CATHOLICS:
Guardian angels (Roman and Ambrosian calendars)

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (22 tut/maskaram):
Cotylas, Axoua and Tatas of Persia (4th cent.), martyrs (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
Peter Carnesecchi (d. 1567), witness to the point of bloodshed in Italy

MARONITES:
Cyprian and Justina of Antioch (d. 304), martyrs

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Cyprian of Antioch, ieromartire
Justina of Antioch, virgin and martyr
Theodore of Smolensk (d. 1299) and his sons David and Constantine, thaumaturges (Russian Church)

OLD CATHOLICS:
Leodegarius of Autun (d. ca. 680), bishop and martyr