Justus (died between 627 and 631) was the fourth Archbishop of
Canterbury. He was sent from Italy to England by Pope Gregory the
Great, on a mission to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native
Anglo-Saxon paganism, probably arriving with the second group of
missionaries despatched in 601. Justus became the first Bishop of
Rochester in 604, and 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. After his death he was revered
as a saint, and had a shrine in St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.
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1757:
Louis XV of France survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François
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1976:
The Troubles: In response to the killings of six Catholics the night
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in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
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1996:
Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash was assassinated by a bomb-laden cell
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2005:
Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, was
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2008:
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