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The sixth day of January.

Events[]

  • 1494: First Mass celebrated in the New World at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
  • 1806: Horatio Nelson laid to rest in Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.
  • 1893: Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
  • 1929: Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a legacy of work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 1088: Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
  • 1937: André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)

Feast days[]

Roman Catholicism[]

Eastern Orthodoxy[]

  • Traditionally, the beginning of house blessing season
  • Hieromartyr Romanus, beheaded by the Turks (1695)
  • Saint Theophan the Recluse (1894)
  • Russian new martyrs Andrew, priest, and with him Lydia, Domnica, and Maria (1919)
  • Repose of monk Schema Nicholas of Valaam (1824)
  • Repose of Schemamonk Sergius Yanovsky, disciple of Saint Herman of Alaska (1876)
  • Repose of Elder Laurence of Chernigov Convent (1950)
Months and days of the year
January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
February 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (29)
March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
August 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
September 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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