August 3

The third day of August.
==Events==
* 435: Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
* 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
==Births==
* 1604: John Eliot, English missionary (d. 1690)
* 1692: John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759)
* 1901: Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Polish Catholic prelate (d. 1981)
* 1905: Franz Cardinal König, Austrian Catholic archbishop (d. 2004)
* 1922: Robert Sumner, American Baptist evangelist and author
* 1923: Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Christianity
==Deaths==
* 1527: Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
* 1528: Elizabeth Luther, daughter and second child of Martin Luther (born 1527)
* 1643: Brian Cansfield, English Jesuit priest, martyr
==Feast days==
===Roman Catholicism===
* Saint Abidon
* Saint Gamaliel
* Saint Nicodemus
* Translation of Saint Olaf of Norway, king, martyr (Norway)
* Saint Walthen, abbot of Melrose
* Invention of Saint Stephen (common; Paris, in green)
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