[Magdalen] LISTGIVE

[Joseph Cirou]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
>Sent: Dec 25, 2016 1:58 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] LISTGIVE
>
>On 25/12/2016 06:07, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>> And then there's Old Christmas, which some of the folks in the mountain mission churches talked about. And one of the customs with that was to go "Kris Kringling," which I never figured out. I had wondered if the day was actually the Epiphany, but they weren't too sure about that.
>
>That would be Christmas Day as observed by some Orthodox. It's when 25 
>December would have been had 11 days not been skipped over in 1752 to 
>try and get us back closer to date4s as measured by the earth's orbit of 
>the sun. This is seen in the difference between the (old) Julian and the 
>(new) Gregorian calendar introduced in 1582. Until 2000 it fell on 6 
>January in the Gregorian calendar but is now 7 January.
>
>Roger

I believe there are places in England that observe "Old" Christmas, New Year's, and Twelfth Night. There are groups in the appalachia that are still on the old calendar. some of them may have Slavic backgrounds, but not all. When you think that the Coptic Church is still on the pharoanic calendar, it's not that surprising.  What did they do when there wasn't a previous calendar to refer to except to complain who needed a calendar anyway? Plus ca change etc, to lazy to find the circumflex accent on ascii.

JOe