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September 12

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Observed on September 12, 2026
  • Rosh HashanahJewish

    Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, opening the ten days of repentance.

  1. 1362 CEChristian · died

    Pope Innocent VI, fifth of the Avignon popes and a noted reformer of church administration, died at Avignon.

  2. 1665 CEChristian · died

    Jean Bolland, the Flemish Jesuit hagiographer who launched the Acta Sanctorum and gave his name to the Bollandists, died at Antwerp.

  3. 1690 CEChristian · born

    Peter Dens, the Flemish Catholic theologian whose Theologia moralis et dogmatica became a widely used seminary textbook, was born at Boom near Antwerp.

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