July 31

The 30th day of July.

Events

 * 431. Election of Pope Sixtus III
 * 904. Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
 * 1009. Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV.
 * 1905. Arseny (Chagovtsov) of Winnipeg dedicates the  St. Tikhon's Monastery and orphanage.
 * 1941. Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."

Catholicism

 * Saint Banthus, confessor at Trier [Trier]
 * Saint Everard Hanse, martyr
 * Saint Germanus (died 448), bishop of Auxerre, confessor [Bruges; Paris]
 * Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits
 * Blessed John Columbini (died 1367)
 * Saint Justinus de Jacobis
 * Saint Neotus, abbot, confessor [England]
 * Saint Tertullinus, priest, martyr [Salzburg]
 * Saint Helen of Skofde = Helena of Skoefde, widow, martyr [Sweden, Denmark; Scandinavia]
 * Saint Joan Antidea Thouret

Orthodoxy
July 30 | July 31 | August 1
 * Saint Abanoub of Nehesa (Coptic Orthodox)