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Will do!
I am unfamiliar with the practices in Greece - I know name days are big there like in parts of Italy, Spain, Russia, etc - but if a birthday were commemorated it would be more likely be using the Gregorian civil reckoning, the Julian reckoning, or kind of a mix?
Before today, I have never given this any thought! The more I thought about this the more I realized that it isn't really applicable to folks who never lived through a transition of one calendar to the other. Why does dating confuse me so much? Is that why I am single?
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Why does dating confuse me so much? Is that why I am single? Could be!   In IC XC, Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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C^ABA ICYCY XPUCTY !
S. S. I hope this makes amines.
From what I heard but never seen it in print, when the Rusyn aka Ukrainian peasantry took a child to church for its christening the priest named it after one of the saints he commemorated that day. Name days and birth days were virtually the same, more or less. The bard Taras Shevchenko was born on March 9 which by the old style was known as February 25. In 1814 there was only a 12 day differential between Julian and Gregorian. This was the 68th day of the year (unless it was leap year then the 69th) so 68 � 12 = 56.
In the United States the 68th day was Thursday March 9 in 1814, was know as Thursday February 26 on the Imperial Russian Court's ledgers which recorded it on page 56 as Saint Tarasios� day in the Eastern Church as we all used the same calendar then (Byzantine Catholics today celebrate St. Tarasios on February 25, the 40 Saints of Sebaste on March 9 when the RC�s commemorate Saint Francis of Rome). Being a serf (slave) the actual acquisition date was not as important as correct quantity and location (ownership) of property. It is imposable to determine if Taras Shevchenko was baptized on the day of his birth or 40 days later. Being it was a Thursday in 1814 and not a Sunday or major feast the baby may have looked week and was baptized immediately as a safeguard.
Clear as mud? Don�t forget we fought civil (parish) wars over it.
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Many Years to his All Holiness May God grant his servant, The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew peace, health and happiness for many years! Mnohaja i Blahaja L'ita! Ung
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