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Ecclesiastical New Year 2023
+ In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The circumstances under which the Christian calendar came to include September 1st as the Church’s New Year are not perfectly respectable, at least by modern standards. Of all that is unclear about the history of what happened at Nicaea, we do possess epistolary edicts from Constantine in connec…
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