Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.Packer, George Nichols
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Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.
Packer, George Nichols
Calendar; Jewish calendar
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_YEAR 1817-18._ | _Days in_ | _Sundays in_
|_Each Season._|_Each Season._
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_a_--Advent Sunday, November 30th; | |
Advent-tide, | 25 | 4
| |
_1st_ Ember Week, after December 13th; | |
Ember Days, Wednesday, Friday and | |
Saturday. | |
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_b_--Christmas, December 25th; | |
Christmas-tide, | 12 | 2
| |
_c_--Epiphany, January 6th; Epiphany-tide,| 12 | 1
Septuagesima Sunday, January 18th, | 7 | 1
Paschal season from Jan. 18th to | |
March 29th, 70 days | |
Sexagesima Sunday, January 25th, | 7 | 1
Quinquagesima Sunday, February 1st, | 3 | 1
Shrove-tide, (confession time) Shrove| |
Tues., Feb. 3d. | |
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_d_--Ash Wednesday, Feb 4th, Lent begins; | |
Lenten-tide, | 46 | 6
First Sunday in Lent (Quadragesima) | |
February 8th. | |
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_2d_ Ember Week after first Sunday in | |
Lent; Ember Days, Wednesday, Friday| |
and Saturday. | |
Holy Week, the week before Easter; | |
Special Days, Palm Sunday, Spy | |
Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, and | |
Good Friday, March 15th, 18th, | |
19th and 20th. | |
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_e_--Easter Sunday, March 22d; | |
Easter-tide, | 39 | 6
Low Sunday, March 29th; Paschal | |
Season ends. | |
Rogation Sunday, April 26th; Rogation| |
Days, the Monday, Tuesday and | |
Wednesday after Rogation Sunday. | |
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