A remote Shetland island is celebrating its traditional New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world. Foula - which is home to fewer than 40 people - never fully adopted the modern ...

Foula is less than five miles long More than four centuries ago, Pope Gregory XIII designed the calendar ... like the rest of the country, with the 13th being the equivalent of the 1st," he ...

The calendar many Christians follow is the Gregorian Calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory the 13th in 1582. The Julian Calendar, on the other hand, found its roots over 1500 years prior ...

In 1752, from Sept. 3rd to 13th, people witnessed a unique historical event. Eleven days were cut from the calendar and deleted forever.

Law President, National Catholic Writers’ Association According to legend, St. Sebastian was born at Narbonne, in Gaul. He became a soldier in Rome and encouraged Marcellian and Marcus, who were ...

the same season of the year and the same relationship to the preceding astronomical full moon that occurred at the time of His resurrection in 30 A.D. This was achieved in 1583 A.D. using skill and ...

Despite the change in calendars in 1752, a move which was approved by Pope Gregory XIII nearly 200 years earlier ... late - the Welsh new year is traditionally celebrated on January 13th. The Hen ...

A similar, Chinese, pattern of a 12-month-year, with the occasional occurrence of a 13th month, can be dated to circa 2000 ... (clearly at odds with its springtime setting). In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ...