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It marks the beginning of year 1582 if that year began on 25 December, the traditional date of the birth or nativity of Jesus. "Indictione decima" (Indiction 10) is the year beginning 1 January, which agrees with modern reckoning. All of these years agree that the bull was dated 24 February 1582, using the modern 1 January beginning of the year.
Gaudete by Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz The first page of the original version. Gaudete (English: / ɡ ɔː ˈ d iː t iː / gaw-DEE-tee or English: / ɡ aʊ ˈ d eɪ t eɪ / gow-DAY-tay, Ecclesiastical Latin: [ɡau̯ˈdete]; "rejoice []" in Latin) [a] is a sacred Christmas carol, thought to have been composed in the 16th century.
The Romance languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, comprise all languages that descended from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire. The Romance languages have more than 700 million native speakers worldwide, mainly in the Americas , Europe , and Africa , as well as in many smaller regions scattered through the world.
Holy Week in the liturgical year is the week immediately before Easter. The earliest allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole with special observances is to be found in the Apostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the latter half of the 3rd century and 4th century.
There exists a consensus among scholars that Jesus of Nazareth spoke the Aramaic language. [1] [2] Aramaic was the common language of Roman Judaea, and was thus also spoken by Jesus' disciples. Although according to new findings Hebrew was also a spoken language among Jews in Judea during the 1st century AD. [3]
Page from the 11th century "Bamberg Apocalypse", Gospel lectionary.Large decorated initial "C". Text from Matthew 1:18–21 (Bamberg State Library, Msc.Bibl.140).. A lectionary (Latin: lectionarium) is a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.
The Latin Church (Latin: Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics. The Latin Church is one of 24 churches sui iuris in full communion with the pope ; the other 23 are collectively referred to as the Eastern Catholic Churches ...
An official version of the Vulgate was still needed. Therefore, Pope Gregory XIV in 1591 created a fourth commission to revise the Sixtine Vulgate, [a] [6] which was subsequently reorganised as the fifth and final commission later the same year. [7] The fourth commission was created by Gregory XIV on 7 February 1591.