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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

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Packer, George Nichols

Packer, George Nichols

Calendar; Jewish calendar

------------------------------------------+--------------+--------------
                _YEAR 1885-86._             | _Days in_    | _Sundays in_
                                            |_Each Season._|_Each Season._
  ------------------------------------------+--------------+--------------
                                            |              |
  _a_--Advent Sunday, November 29th,        |              |
         Advent-tide,                       |      26      |         4
                                            |              |
  _1st_ Ember Week, after December 13th;    |              |
          Ember Days, Wednesday, Friday and |              |
          Saturday.                         |              |
                                            |              |
  _b_--Christmas, December 25th;            |              |
         Christmas-tide,                    |      12      |         2
                                            |              |
  _c_--Epiphany, January 6th; Epiphany-tide,|      46      |         6
       Septuagesima Sunday, February 21st,  |       7      |         1
       Paschal season, from Feb. 21st to May|              |
         2d, 70 days.                       |              |
       Sexagesima Sunday, February 28th,    |       7      |         1
       Quinquagesima Sunday, March 7th,     |       3      |         1
       Shrove-tide, (confession time) Shrove|              |
         Tues., Mar. 9th.                   |              |
                                            |              |
  _d_--Ash Wednesday, March 10th, Lent      |              |
         begins; Lenten-tide                |      46      |         6
       First Sunday in Lent (Quadragesima)  |              |
         March 14th.                        |              |
                                            |              |
  _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, April 18th, 21st, 22d and  |              |
         23d.                               |              |
                                            |              |
  _e_--Easter Sunday, April 25th;           |              |
         Easter-tide,                       |      39      |         6
       Low Sunday, May 2d, Paschal Season   |              |
         ends.                              |              |
       Rogation Sunday, May 30th; Rogation  |              |
         Days, the Monday, Tuesday and      |              |
         Wednesday after Rogation Sunday.   |              |
                                            |              |

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