June 17

 

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

ANGLICANS:
Samuel (d. 1913) and Henrietta Barnett (d. 1936), social reformers

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (10 ba'unah/sane):
Dabamon, Bastamon and Sophia of Sais (3rd cent.), martyrs (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
August Hermann Werner (d. 1882), social reformer in Württemberg

MARONITES:
Amos (8th cent. BCE), prophet

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Manuel, Sabel and Ishmael of Persia (d. 362), martyrs