January 5

The fifth day of January.

Events

 * 1527: Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning.
 * 1839. Martin Stephan and 750 other Saxon Lutherans arrive in New Orleans. Settling in Perry County, Missouri, they would go on to form what would become the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
 * 1962: A replica of the miraculous statue, the Holy Infant of Good Health, is presented to Blessed Pope John XXIII.

Births

 * 1209: Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
 * 1548: Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
 * 1880: Serbian orthodox bishop Nikolai Velimirovic (old calendar)

Deaths

 * 1655: Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
 * 1860: Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first American bishop to be canonized (b. 1811)

Feast days

 * Epiphany (Theophany) eve

Roman Catholicism
* Saint John Neumann * Simeon Stylites[1] * Pope Telesphorus[1]

Eastern Orthodoxy

 * Prophet Micah (9th century BC)
 * Martyr Theopemptus, bishop of Nicomedia and Theonas (303)
 * Saint Syncletica of Alexandria (350)
 * Saint Apollinaris, virgin of Egypt (470)
 * Saint Gregory of Crete, monk (820)
 * Saint Phosterius the Hermit
 * Saint Menas of Sinai
 * Martyr Theoidus
 * Martyr Sais
 * Martyr Romanus of Mount Athos
 * Saint Tatiana
 * Repose of hieroschemamonk Symeon of the Pskov Caves (1960)