Did You Know? The traditional year for Jesus’ Crucifixion is A.D. 33. If so, the most commonly proposed date for the Crucifixion in that year is Friday, April 3rd. LEARN MORE.
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Did You Know? The traditional year for Jesus’ Crucifixion is A.D. 33. If so, the most commonly proposed date for the Crucifixion in that year is Friday, April 3rd. LEARN MORE.
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What do you make of this? In The Spirit of the Liturgy, Cardinal Ratzinger writes about the importance of March 25:
“Astonishingly, the starting point for dating the birth of Christ was March 25. As far as I know, the most ancient reference to it is in the writings of the African ecclesiastical author Tertullian, who evidently assumes as a well-known tradition that Christ suffered death on March 25. In Gaul, right up to the sixth century, this was kept as the immovable date of Easter. In a work on the calculation of the date of Easter, written in A.D. 243 and also emanating from Africa, we find March 25 interpreted as the day of the world’s creation.” (Page 107)