January 3

The third day of January.

Events

 * 1431: Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
 * 1521: Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
 * 1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

Births

 * 1840: Father Damien, Flemish missionary (d. 1889)

Deaths

 * 1098: Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester (b. unknown)

Roman Catholicism

 * Feast day of St Genevieve
 * The ninth day (and tenth night) of Christmas.

Eastern Orthodoxy

 * Holy Prophet Malachi (400 BC)
 * Martyr Gordius, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (3rd century)
 * Venerable Genevieve of Paris
 * Saint Abelard, abbot
 * Repose of Schemahierodeacon Panteleimon, founder of Kostychev Convent