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 Home Page for Calendar Reform
The present civil calendar followed by most of the world has its origins in the early Roman civilization.
Emperor Constantine then reformed the calendar in the 4th century, by introducing the seven-day week, probably modeled on the Christian sabbatical cycle.
The Eastern Orthodox Churches continued observing the Julian Calendar until 1923, at which time some, but not all, skipped the first 13 days in October, and introduced a "Revised Julian Calendar" with a unique variation on the leap-year rule.
http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/calendar-reform.html   (845 words)

  
 Roman mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state (see List of Di Indigetes), and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
The Roman religious calendar reflected Rome's hospitality to the cults and deities of conquered territories.
The original religion of the early Romans was modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimilation of a vast amount of Greek mythology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology   (845 words)

  
 Liturgical year -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
On the traditional calendar used by (additional info and facts about traditional Catholics) traditional Catholics, Eastertide lasts until Trinity Sunday, when the revelation of the Trinity is celebrated.
Before the Roman liturgical calendar was reformed at the (additional info and facts about Second Vatican Council) Second Vatican Council, the Sundays in this part of the year were listed as "Sundays after Pentecost" by Roman Catholics; some Protestants still adhere to the older terminology.
The Liturgical year in the (Derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites) Eastern Orthodox Church is characterized by alternating fasts and feasts, and is in many ways similar to the Roman Catholic year described above.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li/liturgical_year.htm   (2288 words)

  
 Coptic calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church.
To avoid the calendar creep of the latter, a reform of the ancient Egyptian calendar was introduced at the time of Ptolemy III (Decree of Canopus, in 238 BC) which consisted of the intercalation of a sixth epagomenal day every fourth year.
Coptic years are counted from AD 284, the year Diocletian became Roman Emperor, whose reign was marked by tortures and mass executions of Christians, especially in Egypt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_calendar   (1168 words)

  
 Roman mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state (see List of Di Indigetes), and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts.
The original religion of the early Romans was modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimilation of a vast amount of Greek mythology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology   (1414 words)

  
 Roman mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state (see List of Di Indigetes), and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
The original religion of the early Romans was modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimilation of a vast amount of Greek mythology.
The important Roman deities were eventually identified with the more anthropomorphic Greek gods and goddesses, and assumed many of their attributes and myths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology   (1404 words)

  
 Roman mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state (see List of Di Indigetes), and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
The original religion of the early Romans was modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimilation of a vast amount of Greek mythology.
The important Roman deities were eventually identified with the more anthropomorphic Greek gods and goddesses, and assumed many of their attributes and myths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology   (2208 words)

  
 The Roman Calendar
Roman priests were charged with knowing how to keep the calendar and maintaining it.
Roman priests would days to the end of February to keep the calendar in sync with the seasons [similar to Numa's system"].
Roman calendars, in addition to marking the nundinae, also contained letters that indicated what type of public business could be transacted on a given day.
http://abacus.bates.edu/~mimber/Rciv/roman.cal.htm   (2701 words)

  
 Roman Calendar
This Roman Calendar will tell you all about the ancient holidays, as well as what days to shop, when to do business, what days to litigate, and what rites were performed on solemn days.
Is it sacred to some god in the Roman Pantheon?
the Day of Blood (Good Friday), the Entry of the Tree (Palm Sunday), the Festival of Joy (Easter), the Saturnalia & Halcyon Days (Christmas), and the Roman New Year's Day & the Festival of Mars (Mardi Gras/Carnival) all bear witness to a truer and deeper heritage.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/RomanCalendar   (2701 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Temple
Consequently, according to his theory, the temples were so placed that on the day settled on the calendar as the birthday and feast day of the god the rays of the rising sun fell along the axis of the temple and thus also on his statue.
Although the temple contained several chambers within, yet this fact exercised no actual influence on its external construction, while in the Christian church, either of the Romanesque or of the Gothic style, the interior arrangement is easily recognized from the external construction.
Sometimes the temple is of small dimensions, as that at Mahavelliopore on the Coromandel Coast which is hewn out of a detached rock; the ground-plan is a quadrangle, and it rises in several stories like a pyramid built in several terraces.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14495a.htm   (4054 words)

  
 Roman mythology -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state (see (additional info and facts about List of Di Indigetes) List of Di Indigetes), and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
The original (A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) religion of the early Romans was modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimilation of a vast amount of (The mythology of the ancient Greeks) Greek mythology.
The important Roman deities were eventually identified with the more (additional info and facts about anthropomorphic) anthropomorphic Greek gods and goddesses, and assumed many of their attributes and myths.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/r/ro/roman_mythology.htm   (2052 words)

  
 Calendar of saints article - Calendar of saints liturgical year saint calendar church feasts Roman Missal John - What-Means.com
In the Roman Catholic Church, from most to least importance, these are solemnities, feasts, memorials, and optional memorials.
The rankings listed below are those for the universal church, various countries or dioceses may have additional saints or blesseds in their calendars.
If no ranking is given, the feast day belongs to some particular calendar and not the universal calendar.
http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/Feast_day   (1552 words)

  
 Roman Mythology
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state, and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
aunus was the Roman god of the countryside and identified with the Greek Pan, god of the mountainside.
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY, various beliefs, rituals, and other observances concerning the supernatural held or practiced by the ancient Romans from the legendary period until Christianity finally completely supplanted the native religions of the Roman Empire at the start of the Middle Ages.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8991/roman.html   (4901 words)

  
 Roman Mythology
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state, and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY, various beliefs, rituals, and other observances concerning the supernatural held or practiced by the ancient Romans from the legendary period until Christianity finally completely supplanted the native religions of the Roman Empire at the start of the Middle Ages.
mulius, in Roman mythology was a descendant of the Trojan hero Aeneas.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8991/roman.html   (4901 words)

  
 Calendars - Numericana
The Muslim Calendar: The Islamic (Hijri) Calendar (AH = Anno Hegirae).
The Julian calendar is still being used for religious purposes by some Eastern Orthodox churches, such as the Russian Orthodox church.
Coptic years are counted from AD 284, the era of the Coptic martyrs, the year Diocletian became Roman Emperor (his reign was marked by tortures and mass executions of Christians).
http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/calendar.htm   (8129 words)

  
 About the Calendar
The Roman government used the Julian Calendar for official purposes during the events of the New Testament, but the general population continued to use their own local calendars.
Despite these calendar reforms, each part of the Roman Empire continued to use its own local calendar.
Orthodox churches agree in principle that a calendar reform is highly desirable, but they deny that Pope Gregory had the authority to do it.
http://www.kencollins.com/calendar.htm   (896 words)

  
 The Julian and Gregorian Calendars
Subsequently the Julian Calendar became widespread as a result of its use throughout the Roman Empire and later by various Christian churches, which inherited many of the institutions of the Roman world.
The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar which is currently in use in all Western and Westernized countries, and Dionysius Exiguus's system of numbering years A.D. has endured to the present time.
October 1, 1923, in the Julian Calendar became October 14, 1923, in the Eastern Orthodox calendar.
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/cal_art.html   (3488 words)

  
 Time board of the calendar evolution
The king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus reforms the Numanian calendar and introduces the calendar of the Roman republic.
Beginning the Persian calendar and the Islamic era in Persia.
The emperor Augustus reimports the calendar of the Ptolemaios IIIrd Euergetes Ist in Egypt.
http://www.kalendersysteme.de/english/calendar/systems/content.html   (2930 words)

  
 The Temple of Mars
The first month of the Roman calendar, Martius, which originally began on the vernal equinox, honored the god and marked the annual return of life to the Earth, as this was the season for planting crops.
Mythology in Roman religion was never as well developed and elaborate as that of the Greeks, for very early in their history the Romans identified their gods with those of the Greeks, and they adopted Greek mythology into their own religion.
But the most Roman of the gods was also the most enduring of the national gods, for when all the other Greek and Roman cults had faded, that of Mars was one of the last rivals to Christianity.
http://www.angelfire.com/empire/martiana/mars   (2930 words)

  
 Roman Mythology
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state, and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY, various beliefs, rituals, and other observances concerning the supernatural held or practiced by the ancient Romans from the legendary period until Christianity finally completely supplanted the native religions of the Roman Empire at the start of the Middle Ages.
The original religion of the early Romans was so modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimilation of a vast amount of Greek mythology, that it cannot be reconstructed precisely.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8991/roman.html   (4901 words)

  
 Table of Contents and Excerpt, Gardner, Roman Myths
Though Roman religious observance was elaborate and detailed, and the calendar, all through the year, was full of sacrifices and rituals, administered by boards of priests, few have stories attached to them, and few of these, even when they purport to explain the particular cult or functional title of a god, involve the gods themselves.
Roman gods lack personal adventures, and family relationships: for the great gods, these were simply taken over from the Greeks, Olympian and Roman deities being matched up in a very rough and ready way.
Many myths do not involve the gods at all, or only to a small extent, and these are not myths about the Roman gods themselves.
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exgarrmp.html   (2625 words)

  
 Religious Calendars -- The Calendar Zone
ROMCAL: the General Roman Calendar -- ROMCAL is a package of software to compute the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church.
American Nameday Calendar of First Names -- a nameday calendar in which most of our namedays are based on both religion and American history.
Shap Calendar of Religious Festivals -- Religious Calendar, (Bahai, Buddhist, Chinese, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim, Rastafarian, Sikh, Zoroastrian (Parsee)- organised by month or religion.
http://www.calendarzone.com/Religious   (799 words)

  
 Religious Calendars -- The Calendar Zone
ROMCAL: the General Roman Calendar -- ROMCAL is a package of software to compute the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church.
Shap Calendar of Religious Festivals -- Religious Calendar, (Bahai, Buddhist, Chinese, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Japanese, Jewish, Muslim, Rastafarian, Sikh, Zoroastrian (Parsee)- organised by month or religion.
American Nameday Calendar of First Names -- a nameday calendar in which most of our namedays are based on both religion and American history.
http://www.calendarzone.com/Religious   (799 words)

  
 Calendar a History - Timekeepers
January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar with 31 days, and is named for the Roman god Janus, the god of gates, doors, openings and beginnings.
January was the 11th month of the year in the ancient Roman calendar, however in the 2nd century BC it became the first month of the year.
The Gregorian calendar established January 1 as the beginning of the year and has been referred to as the "new style calendar" and the Julian referred to as the "old style calendar".
http://users.commspeed.net/k6xf/calendar.htm   (4031 words)

  
 roman religion - ancient world - comparative-religion.com
However, for all their later cosmopolitan acceptance of other faiths, the Roman Empire's original state gods were so ingrained in law and the calendar itself that all other religions had to be subservient to them - and it was Christian refusal to abide so that lead to their repeated persecution.
Roman religion was not simply a world of mythologies and gods to appease, for at the very heart of their ethos was the notion that the gods were arbitrators of justice, and therefore merely a functionary element, just as the Roman Praetors were earthly symbols of Rome's human laws.
This is not just due to the rich mythology of Rome, but because Roman religion was a function of Roman law- and thus became a basis for all those civlisations that were to erupt from Rome's ashes of empire.
http://www.comparative-religion.com/ancient/roman.php   (625 words)

  
 The Season of Advent
The Eastern Church consists of the Eastern Orthodox churches, the Oriental Orthodox churches, and the eastern-rite churches affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.
In the west during the Middle Ages, Advent became a time to prepare for the Second Coming, because in those days, many people were convinced that all the signs pointed to the imminent return of Christ.
The general topic of Advent is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
http://www.kencollins.com/holy-01.htm   (404 words)

  
 Time board of the calendar evolution
The king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus reforms the Numanian calendar and introduces the calendar of the Roman republic.
Beginning the Persian calendar and the Islamic era in Persia.
The emperor Augustus reimports the calendar of the Ptolemaios IIIrd Euergetes Ist in Egypt.
http://www.kalendersysteme.de/english/calendar/systems/content.html   (2930 words)

  
 The Ethiopian Calendar Belongs
The priests of the Roman Catholic Church have brought two types of differences in the calendar, during the 16 century B.C. The first one deals with the extra days added to the months, and the second one deals with the extra 7 or 8 years added over the annual period of the original calendar.
This fact is true in the Greek or Roman Calendars, because the ancient calendar of the Nile Civilization is scientific.
In their calculation they had understood it, because their calendar was not only built on the yearly overflow of the Nile River.
http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2004/11/12-11-04/Ethiopian.htm   (1874 words)

  
 Roman mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state (see List of Di Indigetes), and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honored with special festivals.
The Roman religious calendar reflected Rome's hospitality to the cults and deities of conquered territories.
The original religion of the early Romans was modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimilation of a vast amount of Greek mythology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mythology   (1874 words)

  
 Astronomical Time Keeping
Although most sources date the conversion from Julian to Gregorian calendar for the pair of days October 4./15., 1582, this is in fact only true for countries where the Roman Catholic Church was influential.
Omission of 10 calendar days, the 4th of October 1582 was followed directly by the 15th of October 1582 in the new calendar.
At the beginning of the 16th century the date in the Julian calendar already lagged 10 days behind the true position of Earth in its orbit and the Easter date began to lose its intended connection with the Jewish feast of Passover (that is tied to the true start of spring).
http://www.maa.mhn.de/Scholar/calendar.html   (3253 words)

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