The tenth day of January.

EventsEdit

• 236. Election of Pope Fabian.
• 1939. Cardinal Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII sends a circular telegram supporting British efforts to aid German Jewish refugees.
• 1940. Pope Pius XII appoints two Jews to the Vatican Academy of Science.
• 1984: The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.

BirthsEdit

• 1607: Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646)
• 1715: Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
• 1828: Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
• 1840: Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)

DeathsEdit

• 681: Pope Agatho
• 1276: Pope Gregory X (bc. 1210)
• 1645: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, martyred by beheading. (born 1573.
• 2005: Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)

Feast daysEdit

ProtestantEdit

AnglicanEdit

• William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645

LutheranEdit

• Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea, 379
• Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, c. 389
• Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, c. 385 (Commemoration) (LCMS

Roman CatholicismEdit

• Peter Orseolo, Doge of Venice and saint
• St. Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa. Brother of St. Basil the Great (Eastern Catholic)

Eastern OrthodoxyEdit

• Saint Gregory of Nyssa, bishop (394)
• Saint Dometian of Melitene, bishop (601)
• Saint Marcian of Constantinople, presbyter (471)
• Saint Paul of Obnora in Vologda, abbot (1429)
• Saint Macarius of Obnora in Vologda, abbot (14th century)
• Blessed Theosebia the Deaconess, sister of Saint Basil the Great (385)
• Saint Ammon, monk
• Saint Macarius of the Kiev Caves Monastery
• Repose of Hieroschemamonk Antipas of Valaam (1882)

Oriental OrthodoxyEdit

• The prophet Obadiah (Coptic Orthodox)
• Fifth day of Nativity (Christmas) (Armenian Orthodox)