Posted 12:15am CT Jan 6, 2008 in Minneapolis

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

This day is the Day of Epiphany, a holy day celebrated in the Western Church. – It is also called the Twelfth Day of Christmas, the Twelfth Day, or Three Kings Day.

2000: A strong force of Yugoslav police suppressed the Christmas celebrations of the Serbian and Montenegrin Orthodox churches in Cetinje, Montenegro.

1937: Death of Fr. André Provençal, a very popular French Canadian Catholic priest known for his healing powers.

1929: Mother Teresa (1910-1997) started her missionary work among the poor and sick in Calcutta, India.

1905: Birth of German Catholic theologian Otto Kuss (died 1991). – Kuss opposed Nazis during the Nazi rule. In the 1960s, he served as a professor of New Testamen exegesis at the University of Munich.

1893: The U.S. Congress granted a charter for the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C. – This Episcopal cathedral – its name is the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul – saw the foundation stone laid in 1907 in the presence of President Theodore Roosevelt. After 83 years of construction, the cathedral was completed in 1990 in the presence of President George H.W. Bush.

1882: Birth of Albanian Orthodox Bishop Fan S. Noli, Prime Minister of Albania in 1924.

1861: Birth of George Exton Lloyd (died 1940), Anglican theologian and Bishop of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1922-1931.

1579: The southern provinces of the Spanish Netherlands declared their loyalty to the Catholic king of Spain, Philip II. – This was the origin of the present-day Belgium.

1536: Foundation of the Franciscan college of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, New Spain (in present-day Mexico City).

1494: The first Mass was celebrated in the New World, in the European settlement of La Isabela in the present-day Dominican Republic.

1485: Pope Innocent VIII canonized Leopold III (died 1136) as a saint. Leopold III is still a national saint of Austria.

1412: Birth of St. Joan of Arc, a French Catholic saint.

1322: Coronation of the Serbian king Stefan Dechanski in the Zicha Monastery. He built the famous Serbian Orthodox monastery Visoki Dechani.

1088: Death of the French medieval theologian Berengar of Tours. He led the famous cathedral school in Chartres, France, an influential school throughout France.

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TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!

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