Aunty Jane
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Sorry for the misunderstanding….St. SteVen said:
Those "pagan gods" were planets created by God originally. The names were probably astronomical rather than astrological.
I thought you said that they were named by Pope Gregory. ??? (post #21)
As we know, a calendar is a system of fixing the beginning, length, and divisions of the year and arranging these divisions in order. So humans have always had ways for dividing time. The Jews had their own calendar, based on a lunar system.
The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C.E., to give the Roman people a solar-year time arrangement in place of the lunar year. The Julian calendar consists of 365 days in a year, with the exception that on each fourth year (leap year), one day is added, to make it 366 days. However, in the course of time, it was found that the Julian calendar year is actually a little more than 11 minutes longer than the true solar year. By the 16th century C.E., a discrepancy of ten full days had accumulated. Thus, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced a slight revision, instituting what is now known as the Gregorian calendar. By papal bull ten days were omitted from the year 1582, so that the day after October 4 became October 15.
The Gregorian calendar promoted the idea that centuries not divisible by 400 are not to be considered leap years. For example, unlike the year 2000, the year 1900 was not made a leap year because the number 1,900 is not divisible by 400. The Gregorian calendar is now the one in general use in most parts of the world.
As a revision of the Julian Calendar it carried over the names of the pagan gods worshipped by the Romans.
Gregory had the option to change the names of those pagan gods, but for some reason, he did not.
How is the true God honored by the names of pagan gods in the first place? The Julian calendar was formed before Christ…..before Christianity existed…..Gregory was “Roman Catholic”…does that explain?