January 8

The eighth day of January.

Events

 * 1077: Pope Gregory VII travels to Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire, to settle a dispute among the German princes.
 * 1958: Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.

Births

 * 1583: Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
 * 1635: Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)
 * 1735: John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop of Baltimore (d. 1815)
 * 1805: Orson Hyde, American religious leader, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1878)
 * 1852: James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
 * 1905: Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)

Deaths

 * 482: Saint Severinus of Noricum
 * 1100: Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
 * 1198: Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
 * 1932: Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
 * 1942: Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
 * 1956: Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)

Roman Catholicism

 * The feast day of Our Lady of Prompt Succor
 * Abo of Tiflis
 * Gudula
 * Lucian of Beauvais
 * Pega
 * Severinus of Noricum
 * Thorfinn of Hamar

Eastern Orthodoxy

 * Venerable George the Chozebite (7th century)
 * Domnica of Constantinople (474)
 * Saint Emilian of Cyzicus, bishop and confessor (9th century)
 * Venerable Gregory, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1094)
 * Saint Elias the Hermit of Egypt (4th century)
 * Martyrs Julian, his wife Basilissa, his son Celsus, Marcionilla, Anthony, and Anastasius; at Antinoe in Egypt (313)
 * Hieromartyr Carterius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304)
 * Martyrs Theophilus the Deacon and Helladius in Libya (3rd century)
 * Saint Cyrus of Constantinople, Patriarch (714)
 * Saint Atticus of Constantinople, Patriarch (425)
 * Saint Agatho of Egypt, monk (4th century)
 * Hieromartyr Isidore at Yuriev, slain by the Roman Catholics (1472)
 * Saint Gregory of Moesia in Bulgaria, bishop (1012)
 * Martyr Abo of Tiflis (790)
 * Saint Paisius of Uglich (1504)
 * Another Saint Gregory, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (14th century)
 * Repose of Elder Isaiah of Valaam (1914)