The dates of Easter
Every year, when I start to evaluate the best time to spend a few days with friends, I begin to wonder when there will be the next Easter holidays.
And due to my vision ... I wonder when it will fall in the following years, too!
A few years ago I had found a little page on the internet that made the calculation on the fly;
for all the past and future years ...
Here you'll find it!
The first Council of Nicaea (year 325) established that the solemnity of the Passover of Resurrection would be celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon (fourteenth day of the ecclesiastical moon) which comes after the spring equinox. On that occasion (or, more likely, in the following decades) the official date of the equinox was moved from March 25 to March 21, since, due to the inaccuracies of the Julian calendar, almost four days of delay compared to the time of Julius Caesar. (It must however be said that, for various reasons, the exact astronomical date of the equinox varies from year to year and over the centuries). For this reason, the date of Easter is between March 22 and April 25 (inclusive). In fact, if March 21 is a full moon, and this day is Saturday, it will be Easter the next day (March 22); if it is Sunday, Easter day will be the following Sunday (March 28). On the other hand, if the full moon happens on March 20, the next one will occur on April 18, and if this day were by chance a Sunday it would be necessary to wait until the following Sunday, that is, April 25. The question of the method of calculating the Easter date was much debated within the Church, especially before, but also after the Council of Nicaea.
ATTENTION!
The original page from which this derives is taken from Eugenio SONGIA's calendar site.
Click below for the original page:
The calendar
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