January 6

The sixth day of January.

Events

 * 1494: First Mass celebrated in the New World at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
 * 1806: Horatio Nelson laid to rest in Saint Paul's Cathedral in London.
 * 1893: Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
 * 1929: Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a legacy of work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.

Births

 * 1412: Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
 * 1861: George Exton Lloyd, Anglican bishop and theologian (d. 1940)
 * 1882: Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
 * 1932: José Cardinal Saraiva Martins of Portugal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

Deaths

 * 1088: Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
 * 1937: André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)

Feast days

 * Epiphany (Theophany)

Roman Catholicism

 * The twelth day of Christmas
 * Three Kings Day
 * Little Christmas (Ireland)

Eastern Orthodoxy

 * *Traditionally, the beginning of house blessing season
 * Hieromartyr Romanus, beheaded by the Turks (1695)
 * Saint Theophan the Recluse (1894)
 * Russian new martyrs Andrew, priest, and with him Lydia, Domnica, and Maria (1919)
 * Repose of monk Schema Nicholas of Valaam (1824)
 * Repose of Schemamonk Sergius Yanovsky, disciple of Saint Herman of Alaska (1876)
 * Repose of Elder Laurence of Chernigov Convent (1950)