On this date, Jan. 10, in history: In A.D. 236, Fabian was elected pope of the early Christian Church. He served until 250, when he became the first martyr under Decius, the emperor who initiated the Roman Empire-wide persecution of Christians. In 1645, William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury and a persecutor of the Puritans during […]
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