January 7

The seventh day of January.

Births

 * 1502: Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
 * 1844: Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (d. 1879)

Deaths

 * 1655: Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
 * 1715: François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)

Roman Catholicism

 * Canute Lavard
 * Charles of Sezze
 * Lucian of Antioch
 * Raymond of Peñafort

Eastern Orthodoxy

 * The Commemoration of St. John the Forerunner
 * Martyr Athanasius of Attalia

Oriental Orthodoxy

 * Ethiopian Christmas (Ethiopian Orthodox)
 * Synaxis of John the Forerunner (Coptic Orthodox)