Happy Easter!

[gb2000ie]

This is the Easter Egg I got today from Mum



VERY posh.

Wow - very fancy!

I'd share a picture of mine, but It's all eaten

B.

 

[bobby15]

Happy Easter All

 

[slimjim]

An as the orthodox church uses a different method and calculates that it is this weekend :

 

[gorgik9]

An as the orthodox church uses a different method and calculates that it is this weekend :

I guess the Christian Orthodox churches still use the Julian calender (the calendar commissioned by none less than Julius Caesar) while the other parts of the Christian world uses the Gregorian calender commissioned by pope Gregory XIII in 1582.

But protestant countries like my native Sweden thought for a very long time that the new calender was some kind of "popish trap", and refused to use the new calender and continued with the old Julian style.

So Sweden introduced the new calendar in 1753, which Great Britain had 1752 and Denmark+the protestant regions of the Netherlands and Germany in 1700.

 

[Shelter]

I guess the Christian Orthodox churches still use the Julian calender (the calendar commissioned by none less than Julius Caesar) while the other parts of the Christian world uses the Gregorian calender commissioned by pope Gregory XIII in 1582.

But protestant countries like my native Sweden thought for a very long time that the new calender was some kind of "popish trap", and refused to use the new calender and continued with the old Julian style.

So Sweden introduced the new calendar in 1753, which Great Britain had 1752 and Denmark+the protestant regions of the Netherlands and Germany in 1700.

Thank you Gorgik - now again I'm a little bit smarten up. So you see it is always good to stop at GH and read the posts. You always can learn something.