January 2

The second day of January.

Events

 * 533: Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
 * 1492: Unification of Spain. Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
 * 2006: Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort begin broadcasting The Way of the Master radio series.

Births

 * 1940: Jim Bakker, American televangelist.

Roman Catholicism

 * The eighth day of Christmas (and ninth night of same). Eight Maids A-milking!
 * Basil the Great
 * Caspar del Bufalo
 * Gregory of Nazianzus
 * Macarius the Younger
 * Seraphim of Sarov
 * St. Berchtold's Day, Switzerland

Eastern Orthodox

 * Hieromartyr Theogenes of Parium, bishop on the Hellespont (320)
 * Saint Ammon of Tabennisi, monk
 * Saint Sylvester of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
 * Venerable Theopemtus, monk
 * Saint Theodota, mother of Saints Cosmas and Damian
 * Venerable Mark the deaf-mute
 * Martyr Sergius of Caesarea in Cappadocia
 * Martyr Theopistus
 * Saint Cosmas of Constantinople, archbishop (1075)
 * Martyr Zorsisus (1770)
 * Righteous Juliana of Lazarevo (1604)
 * Martyr George the Georgian
 * Saint Sylvester, Pope of Rome (335)
 * Repose of abbess Thaisia of Leushino (1915)