I t'was reading on the subject of the evolution of the measure of western calendar; from Babylonian lunar calendars, the Egyptian calendar (which is the mother of our contemporary calendar), the Roman "Julian" calendar and it's successor, the "Gregorian" calendar, and the various ways that Protestants tried to formulate a feasible calendar that wasn't Gregorian, ie; Catholic. Interesting stuff of course. Even to this day there is no uniform, universally agreed upon calendar, a wide range of religions, societies, and spiritualities have their on views on measuring the passing of the days. Of course, the most logical position is the most practical, the measure of the passage of time and days as our earth revolves around the sun.
I found this passage of particular interest,
" The world never entirely accepted the Gregorian reform. The Eastern Orthodox Church, wary of subjecting itself to any Roman rule, has kept the Julian calendar for its own calculation of Easter, *(1),. And so the Christian world, supposedly held together by a Prophet of Peace, has not been able to agree even on the date to celebrate the resurrection of their Savior."
*(1) - much ado was made about how to arrive at the proper day to celebrate Easter. It is a convoluted, overly complex, somewhat arbitrary matter of deduction if you ask me,.....and no one did!
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