October 28

The twenty-eighth day of October.
==Events==
* 312: Battle of Milvian Bridge. Constantine the Great sees an omen in the sky: the Greek letters "Chi" and "Rho" (the first two letters of "Christ") and the inscription "in hoc signo vinces" (with this sign, you will conquer).
* 1943: Weizsacker, the German Ambassador to the Vatican, telegrammed Berlin that Pope Pius XII "has not allowed himself to be carried away [into] making any demonstrative statements against the deportation of the Jews."
* 1958: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice, is elected as Pope John XIII. He succeeds Pope Pius XII.
* 1967: Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople sign a joint declaration calling for cooperation between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
==Feast days==
===Protestantism===
====Anglicanism====
* Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles
====Lutheranism====
* Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles (R)
===Roman Catholicism===
* Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles
===Eastern Orthodoxy===
* Arsenius of Srem, Archbishop of Serbia
* Athanasius I, Patriarch of Constantinople
* Dorbheneus, Abbot of Iona
* Eadsin, Archbishop of Canterbury, England, Who Crowned King Edward the Confessor
* Great-martyr Paraskeva of Iconium
* Martyrs Terence and Neoilla and their children
* New-Martyrs Angelis, Manuel, George and Nicholas of Crete
* Venerable Job of Pochayiv
* Venerable Stephen of Mar Sabbas monastery in Palestine
===Oriental Orthodoxy===
* Discovery of the Holy Cross (Armenian Apostolic Church)
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