October 28

The twenty-eighth day of October.

Events

 * 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.

Anglicanism

 * Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles

Lutheranism

 * Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles (R)

Roman Catholicism

 * Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles

Eastern Orthodoxy

 * 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 Orthodoxy

 * Discovery of the Holy Cross (Armenian Apostolic Church)