The movable date for Easter follows a seemingly straightforward rule: the Sunday following the first full moon on or after ...

The Gregorian calendar, instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, went into effect in 1582. In the 1,417 years from 1583 through 3000, it’s most common for Easter to fall on April 16, with 61 instances.

King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla visited Pope Francis privately on their 20th wedding anniversary yesterday. The meeting took place at the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta, where the Pope has ...

It was at Nicaea that the date of Easter was set; it was one of the most important items on the conciliar ... This was finally accomplished by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, nearly 40 years later ...

This correlates with March or April in the Gregorian calendar (named after Pope Gregory XIII), which is what we use today. Other early Christians preferred to celebrate on a Sunday because it is ...

I've been doing everything I can to get in touch with Pope Gregory XIII about fixing the Gregorian calendar, but I haven't had much luck yet. I'll keep trying his cell, but in the meantime ...

Lastly Gregory XIII in his turn pronounced that "the Rosary had been instituted by St. Dominic to appease the anger of God and to implore the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary." 6.

Pope Gregory XI, who met with Catherine in 1377, would probably have been horrified. Catherine had travelled to Avignon in southern France, where the popes had been living for 70 years, in an attempt ...

Again, the history is fuzzy on this, but in 1582 a new calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII that moved the first day of the new year to Jan. 1. The 1580s being what they were, news ...

The story goes back to the 1500s in France when the Julian calendar (established by Julius Caesar) was replaced with the Gregorian calendar (introduced by Pope Gregory XIII and still used in most ...

Another popular theory links the tradition to the 16th-century calendar reforms. Pope Gregory XIII ordered Christian nations to adopt the Gregorian calendar in 1582, officially shifting New Year ...

What is the origin of April Fool’s Day? No one knows, but that doesn’t prevent plenty of speculation. Citizens in ancient Rome celebrated “Hilaria,” a joyful festival that was likely an equinox ...