January 2012
UN: International Year of Cooperatives
Poverty in America Awareness Month (CCHD)
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| 1 | New Year's Day |
| Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God |
| Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph |
| World Day for Peace - Vatican |
| Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation |
| 3 | Birthday of Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) |
| Birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| 4 | Feast of St. Elizabeth Seton, first American born woman canonized by the Catholic Church |
| 5 | Death Day of George Washington Carver (1865-1943) |
| 6 | Birthday of Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| Birthday of Jean Pierre Rampal (1922-2000) |
| 8 | Feast of the Epiphany; major feast of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. It is the day that the Sisters renew their religious vows. |
| 9 | Feast of the Baptism of the Lord |
| National Migration Week (USCCB) |
| 14 | Birthday of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| 15 | Birthday of Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) |
| 16 | Religious Freedom Day; World Religion Day |
| Martin Luther King, Jr’s. Birthday (observed) |
| 18 | Birthday of A.A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| 19 | Birthday of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) |
| 22-23 | National Prayer Vigil for Life |
| 23 | Chinese New Year (Confucian/Daoist/Budhist) (Year of the Dragon) |
| Death day of Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972) |
| 24 | Feast of St. Frances de Sales |
| Birthday of Edith Wharton (1862-1937) |
| 25 | World Day of Leprosy |
| Birthday of Robert Burns (1759-1796) |
| Birthday of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
| 27 | Birthday of Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) |
| Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) |
| Birthday of Mairead Corrigan Maguire (b.1944) |
| International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust (UN) |
| Auschwitz death camp in Poland, liberation by Soviet troops, 1945 |
| 29 | Catholic Schools Week until 2/5 (U.S.) |
| 31 | Birthday of Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| Birthday of Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) |
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| For more information go to |
| http://www.gratefulness.org/ |
| http://www.easterbrooks.com/personal/calendar/yearly.html |
| http://www.historychannel.com |
| http://aol.beliefnet.com |
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