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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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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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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Julian date
A calendar notation in which the date is represented by one number. For example, the Julian date for December 11, 1942 is 2430705; while December 12, 1942 is 2430706. The Julian date is widely ...
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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 ...