Becoming Familiar about the Christian Calendar

Most people use the term "Christian calendar" without even knowing where it originated or how it got started. Even though people use calendars almost all the time; most of them have no idea when and how it originated.

Uses of Christian Calendar

The term Christian calendar is used to refer to the calendar that people use in their everyday life. This term is applied to the calendar even if it was made even before the era of Christian Rome.

A Christian calendar is composed of 12 months, starting from January until December. There is a total of 365 to 366 days in one entire year. There are 7 days in one week and about four weeks make up one month. Throughout history, there were two kinds or versions of the calendar; the first being the Julian Calendar and the second one being the Gregorian Calendar.

The one difference between these two kinds, however, is the way that these calendars will go ahead and calculate the way Easter is calculated as well as the length of the year.

Let's talk more about the details regarding these two calendars. Let's discuss the Julian calendar first, this was used in 45 BC as Julius Cesar proclaimed. It wasn't until the 1500s when it was replaced and up until this, it was used by most people. Nevertheless, there are still churches that used this well into the 1900s and some still use it until today.

Alternatively, the current Christian calendar that's in use today is the Gregorian calendar. It replaced the Julian calendar as proclaimed by Pope Gregory XIII since the Julian calendar was found to contain several errors.

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