Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar

When it comes to calendars, small errors can add up over time. The Julian calendar—the prevalent calendar in the Christian world for the first millennium CE and part of the second millennium—was an improvement over the Roman republican calendar that it replaced, but it was 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer than the tropical year (the time it takes the Sun to return to the same position, as seen from Earth). The result was that the calendar drifted about one day for every 314 years.

One of the most pressing problems caused by the error was the increasing difficulty of calculating the date of Easter, which the Council of Nicaea in 325 had decreed should fall on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox, which at the time fell on March 21. The growing discrepancy between the date set by the council and the actual vernal equinox was noted in the 8th century CE, if not earlier, and a number of proposals for reform were brought before popes in the Middle Ages. But no action was taken, and the Julian calendar, flawed as it was, remained the official calendar of the Christian church.

In its session of 1562–63, the Council of Trent passed a decree calling for the pope to fix the problem by implementing a reformed calendar. But it took another two decades to find a suitable fix and put it into place. After years of consultation and research, Pope Gregory XIII signed a papal bull in February 1582 promulgating the reformed calendar that came to be known as the Gregorian calendar. The reforms were based on the suggestions of the Italian scientist Luigi Lilio, with some modifications by the Jesuit mathematician and astronomer Christopher Clavius.

The most surreal part of implementing the new calendar came in October 1582, when10 days were dropped from the calendarto bring the vernal equinox from March 11 back to March 21. The church had chosen October to avoid skipping any major Christian festivals. So, in countries that adopted the new calendar, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi onOctober 4, 1582, was directly followed by October 15. France made the transition separately in December.

https://www.britannica.com/story/ten-days-that-vanished-the-switch-to-the-gregorian-calendar

>>10944580

Irony.

>>10944286

UNSTOPPABLE

>>10944321

POPE BENEDICT

>>10944759

So what. He does his thing and gets cast into eternal hellfire.

>>10944805

Antichrist doesn't brag.

You don't know who he is?

He is Javier Solana, the most powerful man behind the EU, given his power by Recommendation 666.

>>10944826

There has always been an Antichrist and a False Prophet on deck, as the devil cannot see the future and does not know how much time he has left.

Pope Francis and Javier Solana are those evil men for our evil time; there have been others for 2000+ years.

>>10944831

I AM THE DEMOCRAT PARTY

>>10944844

Gina is a black hat.

That should be obvious.

Her claim to fame is to torturing people in Gitmo and covering it up.

You cannot dissolve the entire CIA without getting rid of the head of the snake.

>>10944859

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>>10944857

It's common sense, and wisdom.

You should really try to acquire one or the other.

>>10944877

They don't know anything because they're dopey politicians who do what they're told to do.

>>10944904

It's common sense that if the devil does not know the future, and knows that he needs a political and a religious leader at the drop of a hat, that he forms his world government around always having a religious and a political leader to go when the time comes.

Yes.

Common sense.

>>10944915

Many spooks subscribe to the policy that we must have evil men to do evil things because it is an evil world where others have evil men to do evil things.

I am not one of those people.

>>10944934

I never mentioned the MSM.

>>10944939

Babylon the Great is the beast; the Antichrist is the beast; you have to know what you're talking about before you can make sense.