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Today in Christian History January 13 533 Death of St. Remigius, apostle of France and the first bishop of Reims. In one of the most famous...

Today in Christian History January 12 1167 Death at the Cistercian abbey in Rievaulx (in Lincolnshire) of Aelred, an Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer of devotional works. 1525 At Zwingli's...

Today in Christian History January 11 705 Death of Pope John VI. A Greek by birth, he will be remembered for his intervention in a squabble between...

Today in Christian History January 10 236 Fabian, a farmer visiting Rome, is elected pope (tradition says after a dove descends on him). He will serve until...

Today in Christian History Thursday, January 9 710 Death of St. Adrian (or Hadrian) of Canterbury, an African. Well-educated, he had made Canterbury a center of learning...

Today in Christian History Thursday, January 8 482 Death in a monastic cell at Favianae (in modern Austria), of Severinus, an early missionary from Africa who preached...

Today in Christian History Thursday, January 7 312 Lucian, Presbyter of Antioch, is tried and executed for his faith in Nicomedia. 1450 In Scotland, the University of Glasgow was...

Today in Christian History Thursday, January 6 548 This was the last year the Church in Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. (Celebrating Christmas...

Today in Christian History Thursday, January 5 1527 Swiss Anabaptist reformer Felix Manz, 29, was drowned in punishment for preaching adult (re-)baptism. Manz's death made him the...

Today in Christian History Thursday, January 41286Death of Eustathius I (aka Jevstatije), the sixth Serbian archbishop. He will be commemorated as a saint. 1528Ferdinand of Austria,...