January 3

The third day of January.
==Events==
* 1431: Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
* 1521: Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
* 1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
==Births==
* 1840: Father Damien, Flemish missionary (d. 1889)
==Deaths==
* 1098: Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester (b. unknown)
==Feast days==
===Roman Catholicism===
* Feast day of St Genevieve
* The ninth day (and tenth night) of Christmas.
===Eastern Orthodoxy===
* Holy Prophet Malachi (400 BCE)
* Martyr Gordius, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (3rd century)
* Venerable Genevieve of Paris
* Saint Abelard, abbot
* Repose of Schemahierodeacon Panteleimon, founder of Kostychev Convent
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