January 8

The eighth day of January.
==Events==
* 1077: Pope Gregory VII travels to Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire, to settle a dispute among the German princes.
* 1958: Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
==Births==
* 1583: Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
* 1635: Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish Archbishop of Toledo (d. 1709)
* 1735: John Carroll, American Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore (d. 1815)
* 1805: Orson Hyde, American religious leader, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1878)
* 1852: James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
* 1905: Franjo Cardinal Seper, Croatian Catholic cardinal (d. 1981)
==Deaths==
* 482: Saint Severinus of Noricum
* 1100: Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
* 1198: Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
* 1932: Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
* 1942: Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
* 1956: Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
==Feast days==
===Roman Catholicism===
* The feast day of Our Lady of Prompt Succor
* Abo of Tiflis
* Gudula
* Lucian of Beauvais
* Pega
* Severinus of Noricum
* Thorfinn of Hamar
===Eastern Orthodoxy===
*Venerable George the Chozebite (7th century)
*Domnica of Constantinople (474)
*Saint Emilian of Cyzicus, bishop and confessor (9th century)
*Venerable Gregory, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves Monastery (1094)
*Saint Elias the Hermit of Egypt (4th century)
*Julian and Basilissa|Martyrs Julian, his wife Basilissa, his son Celsus, Marcionilla, Anthony, and Anastasius; at Antinoe in Egypt (313)
*Hieromartyr Carterius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304)
*Martyrs Theophilus the Deacon and Helladius in Libya (3rd century)
*Saint Cyrus of Constantinople, Patriarch (714)
*Saint Atticus of Constantinople, Patriarch (425)
*Saint Agatho of Egypt, monk (4th century)
*Hieromartyr Isidore at Yuriev, slain by the Roman Catholics (1472)
*Saint Gregory of Moesia in Bulgaria, bishop (1012)
*Martyr Abo of Tiflis (790)
*Saint Paisius of Uglich (1504)
*Another Saint Gregory, wonderworker of the Kiev Caves (14th century)
*Repose of Elder Isaiah of Valaam (1914)
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