Ted MacNeil wrote: > Actually, no. Easter is a Sunday. Passover is a Thursday or Friday. and he is very nearly right this time. The modern rules for determining the date of Easter were promulgated as a part of the Gregorian calendar. These rules are the work of Christoph Clavius, who o ensured, definitionally, that Easter would always fall on a Sunday, and o attempted to ensure that East and Pesach/Passover would very seldom fall on the same date. In fact, Easter and Pesach fall on the same date three times during the next 11,000 years; and Pesach does not always fall on a Thursday or Friday. A full discussion of these issues will be found on pp. 50-53 of Dershowitz, Nachum, and Edward J. Reingold, Calendrical calculations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, which is the canonical reference for its subject.
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