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Saint of the Day  (January 10)  ✠ Pope Blessed Gregory X✠  Born: 1210, Piacenza, Italy  Died: January 10, 1276, Arezzo, Italy  Church: Catholic Church  Title as Saint: Blessed  Successor: Innocent V  Papacy began: 1 September 1271  Previous post(s): Archdeacon of Liège (1246–1271)  Papal Ascension :  • Elected on 1 September 1271 following the   longest election in the history of the Church.  • Ascended to the throne on 27 March 1272. He was of an illustrious family, born at Placentia, and at his baptism was called Theobald. In his youth he was distinguished for his extraordinary virtue, and his progress in his studies, especially of the canon law, which he began in Italy, and pursued at Paris, and lastly at Liege. He was archdeacon of this last church, when he received an order from the pope to preach the crusade for the recovery of the Holy Land. Incredible were the pains which he took in executing this ...

Saint of the Day (January 10) ✠ St. Gregory of Nyssa ✠ Born: 335 Neocaesarea, Cappadocia Died: 395, Nyssa, Cappadocia Canonized: Pre-congregation Siblings: Basil of Caesarea, Macrina the Younger Parents: Basil the Elder, Emmelia of Caesarea Saint Gregory of Nyssa’s Story The son of two saints, Basil and Emmilia, young Gregory was raised by his older brother, Saint Basil the Great, and his sister, Macrina, in modern-day Turkey. Gregory’s success in his studies suggested great things were ahead for him. After becoming a professor of rhetoric, he was persuaded to devote his learning and efforts to the Church. By then married, Gregory went on to study for the priesthood and become ordained (this at a time when celibacy was not a matter of law for priests). He was elected Bishop of Nyssa in 372, a period of great tension over the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ. Briefly arrested after being falsely accused of ...