January 10

The tenth day of January.

Events

 * 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.

Births

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

Deaths

 * 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)

Anglican

 * William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645

Lutheran

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

Roman Catholicism

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

Eastern Orthodoxy

 * 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 Orthodoxy

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