A BIT OF HISTORY
THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR. The ancient Church Calendar was founded on the two erroneous suppositions that the year contains 365 A days and that 235 lunations are exactly equal to 19 solar years. It could not, therefore, long continue to preserve its correspondence with the seasons or to indicate the days of the new moons with accuracy. Pope Gregory XIIT. issued a brief in March, 1582, in which he abolished the use of the ancient calendar and substituted that whi<?h has since been received in almost all Christian countries under the name of the Gregorian Calendar or the New Style Calendar. In order to restore the beginning of the year to the. same place in the seasons that it occupied at the time of the Council of Nicaea, Gregory directed that the day following the feast of St. Francis, that is. October 5. should be reckoned as October 15. October ]5, therefore, is accepted as the date of the introduction of the Gregorian calendar.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 8
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