Editing Martha (section)

==Veneration==
[[File:Johannes (Jan) Vermeer - Christ in the House of Martha and Mary - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|[[Johannes Vermeer]] ''[[Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Vermeer)|Christ in the House of Martha and Mary]]'', 1655]]

Martha is venerated as a [[saint]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], and commemorated by the [[Lutheran Church]] and the [[Anglican Communion]].
Through time, as the reverence for St. Martha developed, the images of maturity, strength, common sense, and concern for others predominated.<ref name=antigonish>{{Cite web |url=http://www.themarthas.com/stmartha.shtml |title="St. Martha", Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish |access-date=2013-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126212736/http://www.themarthas.com/stmartha.shtml |archive-date=2013-01-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Feast days===
====Roman Catholic====
The [[Latin Church]] celebrates the feast day of Martha, [[Mary of Bethany]] and their brother [[Lazarus of Bethany|Lazarus]] on 29 July.<ref>''Martyrologium Romanum'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2001 {{ISBN|978-88-209-7210-3}}), p. 398</ref> The feast of Martha, classified as a "semi-double" in the [[Tridentine calendar]], became a "simple" one in the [[General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII]], a "third class feast" in the [[General Roman Calendar of 1960]], and a [[Memorial (liturgy)|memorial]] in the present [[General Roman Calendar]].

Until 2021, the liturgical celebration had been solely of Martha, except among the [[Benedictines]]. In that year, [[Pope Francis]] changed it to commemorate the entire family. He further clarified that, contrary to widespread speculation, this Mary was a separate individual from [[Mary Magdalene]], called the Apostle to the Apostles. 

====Orthodoxy====
The [[Eastern Orthodox]] and [[Byzantine Rite]] [[Eastern Catholic Churches]] commemorate Martha and her sister Mary on 4 June. They also commemorate them collectively among the [[Myrrhbearers|Myrrh-bearing Women]] on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers (the Third Sunday of [[Easter|Pascha]] – i.e., the second Sunday after Easter Sunday). Martha also figures in the commemorations of [[Lazarus Saturday]] (the day before [[Palm Sunday]]).

====Lutheran====
Martha is commemorated on 29 July in the [[Liturgical calendar (Lutheran)|Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church]], together with Mary and Lazarus. 

====Anglican====
Martha is also commemorated on 29 July in the [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|Calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oremus: July |url=http://www.oremus.org/calendar/index07.html |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=www.oremus.org}}</ref>

Martha is [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|remembered]] (with [[Mary of Bethany|Mary]] and [[Lazarus of Bethany|Lazarus]]) in the [[Church of England]] with a [[Lesser Festival (Anglicanism)|Lesser Festival]] on [[July 29|29 July]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=2021-04-08|website=The Church of England}}</ref>