August 6

The sixth day of August.
==Events==
* 1978. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini is elected Pope Paul VI
==Births==
* 1504. Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
* 1697. Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
* 1949. Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman (Pentecostalism, British Israelist)
* 1949. Clarence Richard Silva, Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
==Deaths==
* 258. Saint Pope Sixtus II
* 523. Saint Pope Hormisdas
* 1458. Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
* 1695. François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
* 1881. James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
==Feast days==
===Roman Catholicism===
* Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
* Saint Agapitus (died 258)
* Saint Donatus, bishop of Arezzo, martyr (Paris)
* Saints Felissimus and Agapitus, martyrs (common)
*Joachim (father of Mary, mother of Jesus), according to Catholic tradition)
* Saints Justus and Pastor, martyrs in 304 at Complutum, France
* St. Xystus/Sixtus II, pope, martyr (common)
* Saint Walburga, virgin (Bruges)
===Orthodox Christianity===
* Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
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