Justus was the fourth archbishop of Canterbury. Pope Gregory the Great sent Justus to England on a mission to Christianise the Anglo-Saxons, probably arriving with the second group of missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the first bishop of Rochester in 604 and signed a letter to the Irish bishops urging them to adopt the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter. He also attended a church council in Paris in 614. Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616, Justus was forced to flee to Gaul but was reinstated in his diocese the following year. In 624, Justus became Archbishop of Canterbury, overseeing the despatch of missionaries to Northumbria. He died on 10 November, probably sometime between 627 and 631. After his death, he was revered as a saint and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, to which his remains were translated in the 1090s (gravestone pictured). (This article is part of a featured topic: Members of the Gregorian mission.).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1969:

The children's television series Sesame Street (puppeteer pictured) premiered in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street

1972:

Three men hijacked Southern Airways Flight 49 and threatened to crash it into Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. state of Tennessee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Airways_Flight_49

2006:

Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadarajah_Raviraj

2009:

A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daecheong_incident

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

researchship: 1. (countable) A paid position doing research, typically for a university or non-profit organization. 2. (uncountable) The practice or quality of conducting research. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/researchship

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.   --Neil Gaiman https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman