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January 12, 1167: Aelred, the Anglo-Saxon abbot who became one of the Middle Ages' best-known devotional writers, dies.

January 12, 1588: John Winthrop, a lawyer who became the first governor of the Puritans in Massachusetts, is born in Suffolk, England (see issue 41: American Puritans).

January 12, 1897: On the 2nd day of excavating papyri at Oxyrhynchus, papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt find a Greek literary papyrus of 'logia (sayings) of Jesus.' A full Coptic version found at Nag Hammadi 48 years later showed the Greek to be part of the Gospel of Thomas.

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