When the world transitioned from the old-style Julian calendar to the newly established Gregorian calendar, some calendar dates had to disappear. Pope Gregory decreed that the Julian date October 4, ...
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On the night of October 4, 1582, the citizens of Spain and its colonies, Portugal, Poland, and most of Italy went to bed and woke up ten days later. The peculiar event was not some medieval miracle ...
In 1582, ten days really did vanish from the calendar. To fix centuries of drift caused by the Julian calendar, Pope Gregory XIII introduced what we now call the Gregorian calendar. The problem was ...
Gregory XIII decided to amend, as much as possible, certain discomforts the Julian calendar had introduced into the celebration of the holy days. Gregory XIII decided to amend, as much as possible, ...
A senior Russian Orthodox Church official is calling for Russia to return back to its traditional Julian calendar that was used until February 1918. In a televised interview with church-affliliated ...
TAYLOR, Pa. -- For Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian calendar all around the world, January 7 is Christmas Day. People gathered inside St. George's Orthodox Church in Taylor for a special mass ...