The Word of God in Romania 1995.01.09 - The Word of God at the Feast of the S | Page 6

1995.01.09
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(N.S.) even though documents written at the time use a different start of year (O.S.), or whether a date conforms to
the Julian calendar (O.S.), formerly in use in many countries, rather than the Gregorian (N.S.)
The Church Calendar (in Romania) up to 1924 was the same as that of Nicaea, based on severe apostolic
canons, but in 1924, the Scripture of the prophet Daniel was fulfilled: «the people made bold to even change the
times», when the primate metropolitan - of that time, Miron Cristea, (Primate metropolitan = (in the past) a title given
to the first metropolitan of a country; today it would be equal to that of a patriarch) introduced the Gregorian Calendar
(Catholic) as result of a „pan-Orthodox” congress that took place in 1923, in Constantinople. At that congress, the
patriarch of that time, Meletie, proposed the acceptance of the „revised” Julian Calendar, (http://en.wikipe-
dia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar) which was in accord with the Catholic one for a period up to the year 2800 and
„it was allowing that all the feasts to be celebrated at the same time with those of other confessions”. «… and he
shall wear out the saints of the Most High and he shall think to change the times and the law…» (Daniel 7/25), r.n.
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