When is Easter in 2025? When Christians will observe the holiday this year
With the blossoming of spring brings the holiest day in the Christian religion — the celebration of Easter. See when the ...
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Julius Caesar: He Came, He Saw, He Conquered the Calendar and Gave Us New Year's Day
At least, that was the idea. Revolutionary as the Julian calendar was, it wasn't perfect, and fell out of alignment over time. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar ...
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St. John’s Cathedral celebrates Russian Christmas
St. John’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Mayfield celebrated Russian Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7. The church held services ...
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This is the reason why Orthodox Christmas is celebrated on Jan. 7 and not on Dec. 25
The Julian calendar, which was less astronomically precise, gradually fell out of alignment with the solar year. By the 16th century, this discrepancy had become significant enough for Pope ...
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Why some people celebrate Christmas in January
To do so, they decided to base it on the Julian calendar, a solar calendar which Roman ruler Julius Caesar had adopted in 46 B.C. on the advice of Egyptian astronomer Sosigenes in an attempt to ...