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Today in Christian History Thursday, January 29 570 (probable date) Death of Gildas, thought to have been an abbot, who gave us the earliest history we have...

Today in Christian History Thursday, January 28 814 Death at Aachen, Germany, of Charlemagne, the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. One of the greatest rulers...

Today in Christian History January 27 417 Pope Innocent I excommunicates Pelagius, writing, "We judge by the authority of Apostolic power that Pelagius and Celestius be...

Today in Christian History January 26 404 Death in Palestine of Paula, Jerome’s patron and pupil. 1557 Cardinal Pole leads a cleansing at Cambridge University against the "heretical"...

Today in Christian History January 25 1077 Emperor Henry IV submits to Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, Italy, and will be forced to stand for three days...

Today in Christian History January 24 1529 Tatars bind John of Kazan in Kazan (now a Russian Federation city but then under control of the Mongols)...

Today in Christian History January 23 1549 Death at Kronstadt, Transylvania (now Brasov, Romania), of Johannes Honter, a humanist scholar, theologian, and the reformer of Transylvania. 1579 The...

Today in Christian History January 22 304 (probable date) Martyrdom of Vincent of Saragossa, Spain's first famous martyr, who had been starved, racked, exposed in the...

Today in Christian History January 21 885 Pope Adrian III rules in favor of Rothad who had deposed a priest for unchastity and called a church council....

Today in Christian History January 20 250 Death of Fabian, bishop of Rome, under the persecution of Emperor Decius. 473 Death of Euthymius the Great in the desert northeast...