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From: Brian Pears <>
Subject: Re: Who submitted Mrs Jordan and Mrs Fitzherbert to the IGI?
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:56:37 GMT
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Chris Westmoreland <> wrote:
>Not strictly true. The 25th of December is 9 months after the 25th
>March. As well as being Old new year's day it's also Lady Day (nothing
>to do with Billie Holliday), which is also called the Feast of the
>Annunciation or the Feast of the Conception, i.e. the day that the
>Angel Gabriel came to have a chat with the Virgin Mary to inform her of
>what the future held for her.

Chris

You've got it back to front. Christmas Day was set on December
25th to hijack the Pagan festival, and the obvious consequence
of such a pseudo-date-of-birth was a pseudo-date-of-conception
which had to be 9 months earlier, on the basis that the human
gestation period approximates to that period, and this would
be March 26th, which was named Lady Day.

Nobody, of course, should afford either date any credibility
whatsoever. Even if Jesus was a real person, which must be
questionable, the accounts of his birth and his early years
are so obviously fictional that we cannot extrapolate from
them and we just have to admit that we have no information
whatsoever on his date of birth let alone the date of conception.

New Year's Day. In the seventh century New Year's Day was
moved from January 1st to Christmas Day, and then, in the
twelfth century it was moved to Lady Day, and finally, at
various dates over succeeding centuries it was moved back to
January 1st. In England (and its colonies) this occurred in
1752, in Scotland it happened in 1600.
--
Brian Pears
Gateshead, UK

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