Christian feast day: Elizabeth Ann Seton

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was an American Catholic religious and educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five children with her husband William Seton. She converted to Catholicism in 1805 and established the first Catholic girls' school in the nation in Emmitsburg, Maryland. There she also founded the first American congregation of religious sisters, the Sisters of Charity.

January 4 is the fourth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 361 days remain until the end of the year.