by Gian Guido Vecchi
For this reason, Putin ordered a unilateral ceasefire from noon on January 6 to midnight on January 7, which is Christmas Eve and Christmas for the Orthodox
VATICAN CITY – Everything depends on Pope Gregory XIII, nee Ugo Boncompagni, of Bologna, who one fine day in 1582, more precisely on October 4th, with the bull Inter gravissimas published under Julius Caesar in 46 BC. Modification of the calendar established by the 1st century BC: and delete the days up to October 15th this year.
For several centuries, beginning with Ptolemy (in the 2nd century AD), astronomers and mathematicians had pointed out the error of the Julian calendar of Caesar’s time with relative displacement of the vernal equinox and requested a correction, which was finally entrusted to a commission of scholars by Pope Gregory : The Gregorian calendar was born and is still followed by most countries around the world.
Most of the Orthodox Churches on the planet, starting with the Russian one, still use the old Julian calendar. The two calendars run parallel, the progressive shift of 13 days: Orthodox Christians also celebrate Christmas on December 25, only for them it corresponds to January 7 of the Gregorian calendar, and Epiphany becomes Christmas Eve. That is why the Christmas peace ordered by Putin falls on January 6th and 7th.
Which then was the same reason why the October Bolshevik Revolution, or storming of the Winter Palace of what was then Petrograd (St. Petersburg), took place on the night of November 6-7 of the Gregorian calendar, and then into the west of October was translated because in the Russian calendar (Julian) it corresponded to the night of October 24th to 25th.
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