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I went to the Byzantine Good Friday services this year and heard the priest repeat several times that Christ was crucified on March 25. I'm simply curious why the Byzantine Orthodox calendar is arranged in such a way that Good Friday apparently never falls on that date? (I played around with this thing for 10 minutes and couldn't find a single instance.)
posted by Ben Johnson at 12:10 PM
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1 Comments:
Ah, Ben. You should know better than to delve into mysteries whose essence is incomprehensible!
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