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Today's featured article Modern gravestone of Justus 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.) Recently featured: George Floyd (American football) Mario Party DS Starship Troopers (film) On this day... November 10 Caroll Spinney with his Oscar the Grouch puppet 1599 – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath. 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street (puppeteer pictured) premiered in the United States. 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. 2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo. 2009 – A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. Afzal Khan (d. 1659) Scipione Piattoli (b. 1749) Andrés Manuel del Río (b. 1764) Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (b. 1887) More anniversaries: November 9 November 10 November 11

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