January 2

The second day of January.
==Events==
* 533: Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
* 1492: Unification of Spain. Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege.
* 2006: Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort begin broadcasting The Way of the Master radio series.
==Births==
* 1940: Jim Bakker, American televangelist.
==Feast days==
===Roman Catholicism===
* The eighth day of Christmas (and ninth night of same).
* Basil the Great
* Caspar del Bufalo
* Gregory of Nazianzus
* Macarius the Younger
* Seraphim of Sarov
* St. Berchtold's Day, Switzerland
===Eastern Orthodox===
* Hieromartyr Theogenes of Parium, bishop on the Hellespont (320)
* Saint Ammon of Tabennisi, monk
* Saint Sylvester of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
* Venerable Theopemtus, monk
* Saint Theodota, mother of Saints Cosmas and Damian
* Venerable Mark the deaf-mute
* Martyr Sergius of Caesarea in Cappadocia
* Martyr Theopistus
* Saint Cosmas of Constantinople, archbishop (1075)
* Martyr Zorsisus (1770)
* Righteous Juliana of Lazarevo (1604)
* Martyr George the Georgian
* Saint Sylvester, Pope of Rome (335)
* Repose of abbess Thaisia of Leushino (1915)
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