By: Felipe Argote
Dionisio | The Dwarf
A monk from the current date Romania invented Christmas and sitting on the current schedule a desk.
Prior to the use of the current calendar that supposedly started with the so-called "Anno Domini" or year of birth of Jesus the calendar was the calendar used Diocletian who ruled the Roman imprio during the years 244 to 311, which established in year 1 the first of its mandate. Before the Diocletian used the "Ad Urbe Condit" or the founding of Rome. This is about the year 753 BC
Falling Rome in the early fifth century this system fell into disuse. It was thought that creating a computing system to be imposed on the historical Pope John I gave instructions to a group of Scythian monks, to be located in the region Scythia in the territory of Dobrogea, to calculate the date of the birth of Christ. I did not want to use over the Roman calendar established by Diocletian, who was the biggest persecutor of Christians.
Fibonnacci |
instructed monks Scythian monk named Dionysius dwarf to perform the calculation. Would be located in the historic moment to realize that this was not exactly easy computation in a time when Europe was unknown zero. This important number used by the Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Mayans thousands of years before came to Europe in the fifteenth century brought the hand of the Italian mathematician Fibonnacci in the twelfth century who moved from Saudi but came originally from India.
Therefore the calculations of Dionysius the dwarf could not but be imperfect. The method used to calculate the birth of Jesus was by adding the time that lasted the reigns of Roman emperors and subtracting the date you made the calculation. Established since Jesus was born in the year 753 after the founding of Rome.
Diocletian |
However, the dwarf committed at least two serious mistakes: first, did not take into account that existed one year 0. It jumped the year before Christ a year after Christ. A Caesar Augustus, who ruled the Roman Empire during the birth of Jesus forgot add the first four years in which the kingdom under the name of Octavio before Cesar Augusto vary. These two errors put Jesus to be born in 5 BC
Perhaps this error had gone unnoticed or someone would have corrected it not that the Venerable Bede used this miscalculation to put the dates on his "Ecclesiastical History of the English. " This book made him known as the father of English history. San Beda's writings gave importance to the chronology of Dionysius the dwarf, which served for this was that used during the control period in Europe by the church in the Middle Ages.
In fact if we Dionysus, Jesus was born two years after the death of Herod, which is illogical if we know that Herod ordered the killing of all children under two years old when he learned that a child had been born Jews thought would be their savior.
Herod the Great |
However, the establishment of 25 December is another story. It is believed that the date was used from the year 336 because it was a traditional date of the winter festival since the time of the Celts. Among those traditions was the giving and receiving gifts. The church has historically been used as religious festivals and holidays were changed to Christian to win converts.
In fact it is considered that the birth of Jesus occurred in early April. Proof of this is that in the scriptures originated at the time of his birth refer to shepherds watched their flocks outdoors. This is not possible in that area in December when the cold can reach below zero forcing herders to keep their sheep in close quarters.
According to Clement of Alexandria, who lived in the late second century, Jesus was born between 19 April and 20 May. This would explain the fact that the shelters were full to get Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem because it was near the celebration of Passover when many moved to celebrate.
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