July 31

The thirty-first day of July.
==Events==
* 431. Election of Pope Sixtus III
* 904. Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
* 1009. Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV, succeeds Pope John XVIII .
* 1492: Deadline of the Alhambra Decree of March 31, which ordered all Jews and Muslims to convert to Catholicism or be expelled from Spain.
* 1905. Arseny (Chagovtsov) of Winnipeg dedicates the St. Tikhon's Monastery and orphanage.
* 1941. Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
==Feast days==
===Catholicism===
* Saint Banthus, confessor at Trier
* Saint Everard Hanse, martyr
* Saint Germanus (died 448), bishop of Auxerre, confessor (Bruges; Paris)
* Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits
* Blessed John Columbini (died 1367)
* Saint Justinus de Jacobis
* Saint Neotus, abbot, confessor (England)
* Saint Tertullinus, priest, martyr (Salzburg)
* Saint Helen of Skofde = Helena of Skoefde, widow, martyr (Sweden, Denmark)
* Saint Joan Antidea Thouret
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