#pope gregory

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1582 – Pope Gregory reforms the calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45BCE: 4 October is followed by 15 October. However, the reform will not be implemented in Ireland till 1752.

The papal bull of February 1582 decreed that 10 days should be dropped from October 1582 so that 15 October should follow immediately after 4 October, and from then on the reformed calendar should be used. Most protestant countries adopted the calendar between 1699-1701. Great Britain, Ireland and the American colonies, did not switch over until 1752 – by which time it was necessary to cut 11…

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#Gregorian Calendar #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #Julius Caesar #Pope Gregory #Today in Irish History

[southernsagestoryteller]

Leaping

Well, this has been on my mind since January and since it was still rattling around up there, I thought I might as well get it out and be done with it. This year – 2024 – is called Leap Year. What has been boggling my mind is: exactly WHAT are we leaping??? And, yes, I understand that the term Leap Year refers to the year when there is an additional day in February. And, so, this year we had 29…

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#Bissextile #calendar #day #February #February 29th #Gregorian Calendar #Intercalary #Irish tradition #Julian Calendar #Julius Ceasar #leap #Leap Day #Leap Year #leapers #leaping #leaplings #Lunar calendar #month #moon cycles #Numa Pompilius #Pope Gregory #Rome #rules #seasons #Solar calendar #solar year #week #year

[octavianiscougarbait]

I'm honestly always thinking about how Gregory the Great was in so much pain from his chronic issues that he couldn't leave his bed, and he wrote 35 volumes about Job, who is the biblical poster child of suffering while keeping the faith.

Gregory thought the world was ending. The Lombards were attacking, the empire had long since abandoned the city of Rome, there was famine, and several plague outbreaks. The barbarians were heretics or schismatic, and all he could do was write letters across the continent asking for someone to care about order and God. He was trying to prioritize charity, along with hierarchy. He wrote a lot about miracles and saints, the ideal bishop, and so on.

But he also wrote about suffering having meaning while bedridden at the end of the world. He dedicated it to his special friend, Leander of Seville, who also was suffering chronic pain. The letters that Gregory sent to him were extremely sweet.

Anyway, as a person who also has chronic pain, this was a very unique topic to learn about.

#gregory the great #medival #popes #I'm not Catholic #just a historian

[cuties-in-codices]

pope gregory ix catching blood emitted from the side wound of st. francis who appears to him in a vision

in a vita of st. francis of assisi, illuminated manuscript, germany, late 14th c.

source: Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Ms. Berol. germ. quart. 357. p. 41

#medieval art #14th century #st francis #pope gregory ix #sidewound #christian iconography #illuminated mauscript #medieval #saints

[chagrin-roses]

misc doodles of prev hyperfixations bc I said so

#my art #pintrovert’s art #max cc #camp camp #popee the ぱフォーマー #popee the performer #peridot #frisk undertale #queen deltarune #gf fnf #friday night funkin #haruhi fujioka #ouran high school host club #ohshc #ptp #girlfriend fnf #team rocket #gregory fnaf

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

#tumblr polls #arthur shelby #cisco ramon #simon basset #gregory house #harvey specter #don draper #jemma simmons #sansa stark #kim wexler #olivia pope #thirteenth doctor #donna meagle #peaky blinders #doctor who #better call saul #agents of shield #bridgerton #suits tv #mad men #the flash #parks and rec #game of thrones #scandal #house md

[apenitentialprayer]

[Christ's] prayer to God was pure, His alone out of all mankind, for in the midst of His suffering He prayed for His persecutors: Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing [Luke 23:34]. Is it possible to offer, or even to imagine, a purer kind of prayer than that which shows mercy to one's torturers by making intercession for them? […] Paul speaks of the sprinkled blood that calls out more eloquently than Abel's [Hebrews 12:24]. Of Abel's blood Scripture had written: The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the earth [Genesis 4:10]. The blood of Jesus calls out more eloquently than Abel's, for the blood of Abel asked for the death of Cain the fratricide, while the blood of the Lord has asked for, and obtained, life for His persecutors.

Pope Gregory the Great, Moral Reflections on Job (13.25, 26)

The dropping of His blood is as the music of heaven to the penitent sons of the earth. We are full of sin, but the Saviour bids us lift our eyes to Him, and as we gaze upon His streaming wounds each drop of blood, as it falls, cries "It is finished; I have made an end to sin; I have brought in everlasting righteousness." Oh! Sweet language of the Precious Blood of Jesus!

Charles Spurgeon

#Christianity #Catholicism #Precious Blood #Pope Gregory the Great #Cain and Abel #Jesus Christ #hatred #revenge #love #forgiveness #Gospel of Luke #Genesis #Letter to the Hebrews #Holy Wounds #Good Friday

[thedavekim]

St Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I); one of the Latin Fathers and Doctor of the Church; patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers

#stgregorythegreat #pope gregory i #prayforus #catholic #pope #saint #noshamedance #backtothedrawingboard #artistsoninstagram

[tomwambsgans]

found a single instance of someone other than tom calling greg Gregory and it's in the church at logan's funeral

do we think this means anything

#greg hirsch #4x9 church and state #mine #for that matter did greg ever call roman ROME before? maybe it's just to like up the family vibes or something #but it's my instinct to give significance to the church specifically bc of the saintly vibes of Gregory #like one of the first times if not THE first utter of greg's full name by someone else #at least in the script #is tom calling him pope gregory the first. AND this comes back with the march 12th date

[stjohncapistrano67]

I believe this is a shrine to St. Pope Gregory the Great, in the Vatican.

#traditional catholicism #traditional catholic images #traditional catholic renaissance art #traditional catholic shrines #traditional catholic pope saints #pope saint gregory the great #the vatican

[thepastisalreadywritten]

NEW YORK (AP) — Leap year. It’s a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us.

So how did it all begin and why?

Have a look at some of the numbers, history and lore behind the (not quite) every four year phenom that adds a 29th day to February.

BY THE NUMBERS

The math is mind-boggling in a layperson sort of way and down to fractions of days and minutes.

There’s even a leap second occasionally, but there’s no hullabaloo when that happens.

The thing to know is that leap year exists, in large part, to keep the months in sync with annual events, including equinoxes and solstices, according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.

It’s a correction to counter the fact that Earth’s orbit isn’t precisely 365 days a year.

The trip takes about six hours longer than that, NASA says.

Contrary to what some might believe, however, not every four years is a leaper.

Adding a leap day every four years would make the calendar longer by more than 44 minutes, according to the National Air & Space Museum.

Later, on a calendar yet to come (we’ll get to it), it was decreed that years divisible by 100 not follow the four-year leap day rule unless they are also divisible by 400, the JPL notes.

In the past 500 years, there was no leap day in 1700, 1800 and 1900, but 2000 had one.

In the next 500 years, if the practice is followed, there will be no leap day in 2100, 2200, 2300 and 2500.

The next leap years are 2028, 2032, and 2036.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITHOUT A LEAP DAY?

Eventually, nothing good in terms of when major events fall, when farmers plant and how seasons align with the sun and the moon.

“Without the leap years, after a few hundred years we will have summer in November,” said Younas Khan, a physics instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

“Christmas will be in summer. There will be no snow. There will be no feeling of Christmas.”

WHO CAME UP WITH LEAP YEAR?

The short answer: It evolved.

Ancient civilizations used the cosmos to plan their lives, and there are calendars dating back to the Bronze Age.

They were based on either the phases of the moon or the sun, as various calendars are today. Usually they were “lunisolar,” using both.

Now hop on over to the Roman Empire and Julius Caesar.

He was dealing with major seasonal drift on calendars used in his neck of the woods. They dealt badly with drift by adding months.

He was also navigating a vast array of calendars starting in a vast array of ways in the vast Roman Empire.

He introduced his Julian calendar in 46 BCE.

It was purely solar and counted a year at 365.25 days, so once every four years an extra day was added.

Before that, the Romans counted a year at 355 days, at least for a time.

But still, under Julius, there was drift. There were too many leap years.

"The solar year isn’t precisely 365.25 days. It’s 365.242 days," said Nick Eakes, an astronomy educator at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Thomas Palaima, a classics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said adding periods of time to a year to reflect variations in the lunar and solar cycles was done by the ancients.

The Athenian calendar, he said, was used in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries with 12 lunar months.

That didn’t work for seasonal religious rites. The drift problem led to “intercalating” an extra month periodically to realign with lunar and solar cycles, Palaima said.

The Julian calendar was 0.0078 days (11 minutes and 14 seconds) longer than the tropical year, so errors in timekeeping still gradually accumulated, according to NASA. But stability increased, Palaima said.

The Julian calendar was the model used by the Western world for hundreds of years.

Enter Pope Gregory XIII, who calibrated further. His Gregorian calendar took effect in the late 16th century.

It remains in use today and, clearly, isn’t perfect or there would be no need for leap year. But it was a big improvement, reducing drift to mere seconds.

Why did he step in? Well, Easter.

It was coming later in the year over time, and he fretted that events related to Easter like the Pentecost might bump up against pagan festivals.

The pope wanted Easter to remain in the spring.

He eliminated some extra days accumulated on the Julian calendar and tweaked the rules on leap day.

It’s Pope Gregory and his advisers who came up with the really gnarly math on when there should or shouldn’t be a leap year.

“If the solar year was a perfect 365.25 then we wouldn’t have to worry about the tricky math involved,” Eakes said.

WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH LEAP YEAR AND MARRIAGE?

Bizarrely, leap day comes with lore about women popping the marriage question to men.

It was mostly benign fun, but it came with a bite that reinforced gender roles.

There’s distant European folklore.

"One story places the idea of women proposing in fifth-century Ireland, with St. Bridget appealing to St. Patrick to offer women the chance to ask men to marry them," according to historian Katherine Parkin in a 2012 paper in the Journal of Family History.

Nobody really knows where it all began.

In 1904, syndicated columnist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, aka Dorothy Dix, summed up the tradition this way:

“Of course people will say ... that a woman’s leap year prerogative, like most of her liberties, is merely a glittering mockery.”

The pre-Sadie Hawkins tradition, however serious or tongue-in-cheek, could have empowered women but merely perpetuated stereotypes.

The proposals were to happen via postcard, but many such cards turned the tables and poked fun at women instead.

Advertising perpetuated the leap year marriage game. A 1916 ad by the American Industrial Bank and Trust Co. read thusly:

“This being Leap Year day, we suggest to every girl that she propose to her father to open a savings account in her name in our own bank.”

There was no breath of independence for women due to leap day.

SHOULD WE PITY THE LEAPLINGS?

Being born in a leap year on a leap day certainly is a talking point. But it can be kind of a pain from a paperwork perspective.

Some governments and others requiring forms to be filled out and birthdays to be stated stepped in to declare what date was used by leaplings for such things as drivers licenses, whether February 28 or March 1.

Technology has made it far easier for leap babies to jot down their February 29 milestones, though there can be glitches in terms of health systems, insurance policies, and with other businesses and organization that don’t have that date built in.

There are about 5 million people worldwide who share the leap birthday out of about 8 billion people on the planet.

Shelley Dean, 23, in Seattle, Washington, chooses a rosy attitude about being a leapling.

Growing up, she had normal birthday parties each year, but an extra special one when leap years rolled around.

Since, as an adult, she marks that non-leap period between February 28 and March 1 with a low-key “whew.”

This year is different.

“It will be the first birthday that I’m going to celebrate with my family in eight years, which is super exciting, because the last leap day I was on the other side of the country in New York for college,” she said. “It’s a very big year.”

#Leap Year #calendar #equinoxes #solstices #Jet Propulsion Laboratory #California Institute of Technology #NASA #National Air & Space Museum #Julius Caesar #julian calendar #Pope Gregory XIII #gregorian calendar #Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer #Dorothy Dix #leaplings

[stairnaheireann]

St Valentine

There are many versions of the Legend of St Valentine, but a few things are known. That he was a priest martyred (as in beheaded) on 14th February, in either 269 AD or 270 AD by the Roman Emperor Claudius II, also known as Claudius the Cruel. Among Valentine’s crimes was secretly marrying Christian lovers. Claudius, being a sexist as well as a tyrant, decided that those pesky women were the…

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#Ashford Castle #Carmelite Church #Claudius II #Claudius the Cruel #Co. Mayo #Dublin #Father John Sprat #Pope Gregory XVI #St. Valentine #White friar Street

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

#i just think the sentence they used is funny #but the name angeleno reminds me of the angles #and the legend about how pope gregory thought the name was fitting #since they had angelic faces and should be co-heirs of the angels in heaven #angelenos are the culmination of those ancient angles #angel comes from an ancient greek word that means messenger #so angelenos are messengers #like the angles who colonized great britain and then the anglos who colonized america #now the angelenos who will colonize the heavens #it's called we do a little mythmaking

[tabernacleheart]

When Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and did not find the Lord’s body, she thought it had been taken away and so informed the disciples. After they came and saw the tomb, they too believed what Mary had told them, [but] the disciples went back home, [while] Mary wept and remained standing outside the tomb. We should reflect on Mary’s attitude and the great love she felt for Christ; for though the disciples had left the tomb, she remained. She was still seeking the One she had not found, and while she sought she wept; burning with the fire of love, she longed for Him who she thought had been taken away. And so it happened that the woman who stayed behind to seek Christ was the only one to see Him. For perseverance is essential to any good deed, as the voice of truth tells us: Whoever perseveres to the end will be saved. At first she sought but did not find, but when she persevered it happened that she found what she was looking for. When our desires are not satisfied, they grow stronger, and becoming stronger they take hold of their object. Holy desires likewise grow with anticipation, and if they do not grow they are not really desires. Anyone who succeeds in attaining the truth has burned with such a great love.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great

#Pope Saint Gregory the great #saint mary magdalene #Love #the resurrection #reflect on this #perseverance #desiring god

[vampyrgrl]

reading the gospel of mary changed me fundamentally all the way down to my cells. oh how i long for the complete text to be found

#jesus christ first male feminist #reminder pope gregory I i will meet you in HELL FOR HOW YOU HAVE SLANDERED MARY MAGDALENE

[feathered-moths-ablaze]

The children thought that Mama would never find them as long as she couldn't see them

Turn the page

But Mama could still hear the children. The pitter patter of their little feet led Mama right to them.

Turn the page

Then Mama found the children, every last one, and put them right back to bed

Suprise its CBF! They're just a little guy, trying to help the poor pups left abandoned in the complex. What do you mean they just got destracted and their parents are a jump away? No they were definitely alone they swear. Don't look into it I will voiddamn rip you apart if you take them away from me

How they came to be and how long is a mystery, and why their pups never seem to last long is a worry, but it's fine! They just grew up and left the shelter! Just don't think about how they were horrified about the Truth and were never seen again.

Just a quick heed of warning - Gregory was not the first, and he is not the last

Alt version. Warning: implied child(ren) death

#art #rain world #taleblr #taleblr rainworld au #cardboard friend #gregory casket #the parasite #poping that tag in because I added them in here #Needed designs for the pups #bit hard to see him but he's there