The twenty-eighth day of October.

EventsEdit

• 312: Battle of Milvian Bridge. Constantine the Great sees an omen in the sky: the Greek letters "Chi" and "Rho" (the first two letters of "Christ") and the inscription "in hoc signo vinces" (with this sign, you will conquer).
• 1943: Weizsacker, the German Ambassador to the Vatican, telegrammed Berlin that Pope Pius XII "has not allowed himself to be carried away [into] making any demonstrative statements against the deportation of the Jews."
• 1958: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice, is elected as Pope John XIII. He succeeds Pope Pius XII.
• 1967: Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople sign a joint declaration calling for cooperation between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

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Feast daysEdit

ProtestantismEdit

AnglicanismEdit

• Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles

LutheranismEdit

• Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles (R)

Roman CatholicismEdit

• Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles

Eastern OrthodoxyEdit

• Arsenius of Srem, Archbishop of Serbia
• Athanasius I, Patriarch of Constantinople
• Dorbheneus, Abbot of Iona
• Eadsin, Archbishop of Canterbury, England, Who Crowned King Edward the Confessor
• Great-martyr Paraskeva of Iconium
• Martyrs Terence and Neoilla and their children
• New-Martyrs Angelis, Manuel, George and Nicholas of Crete
• Venerable Job of Pochayiv
• Venerable Stephen of Mar Sabbas monastery in Palestine

Oriental OrthodoxyEdit

• Discovery of the Holy Cross (Armenian Apostolic Church)