The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-07
GREEK CHRISTMAS TO
Be OBSERVED TODAY
APPROPRIATE SERVICES TO
BE HELD IN GRACE
CHURCH FOR THEM
DINNER TONIGHT
Feast Will BE Spread as the Pied.
mont Cafe-The Greek
Calendar.
DINNER TONIGHT

The Greek colony in Anderson today
observe Christmas. One week from to-
day will be their New Years day.
1t is customary for members of the
Greek orthodox church to attend the
Episcopal church when they have no
church of their own, and to call upon
the priests Of the Episcopal church to
minister to their needs.
Following this friendly relationship
the Rev. j. II. Gibbonry, rector OF
Grace church, will conduct a Christ
mas service for the Greeks Of Ander-
son today. The Holy Eucharist will
be celebrated at 8 o'clock this morn
Ing and members OF the Greek church
now in Anderson will have the oppor-
tunity to make their Christmas COM
munion.
The Greek Orthodox Church. ad-
heres to the. Julian calendar, which
accounts for the time elapsing after
the Christmas of o'her Christian
churches. The Julian calendar was
supplanted by the Gregorian calen-
dar in the 10th century.
Luigi Lilo Ghiraldi, physician OF
Verena. projected a plan OF amending
the calendar. After his death his
brother presented 1t to Pope Gregory
l&II. To carry 1t into execution the
Pope summoned prelates and learned
men.
Papal Brief in 1852.
In 1877 the proposed change was
adopted by all the Catholic princes.
and In 1882 the Pontiff issued o brief
abolishing the Julian calendar in all
Catholic countries and INTRODUCING in
Its stead tho Gregorian or reformed
calendar.
| The amendment was ordered thus: 1:
Ten days were to be dropped after
October 4, 1882. and the 18th was to
t'a reckoned Immediately after the
9th. Every hundredth year. which,
by the old style was to have been q
leap year, was now to be q common
year, the 4th excepted; that is 1900
was to remain a leap year, but 100.
1900 and 1900 were, to be Sa gcommofi
length, and 2000'to be a, leap year
again. ig Iff Esip u tRsu0jlC
In the 'Gfegorian calendar tho length
OF the solar year was taken t6'be 865
days, 3 hours!''49 minutes and 10 Sec
und6. the difference between, witch
and subsequent observations Is imma-
teriai.
In Spain. Portugal, and the greater
portion Of ITALY the amendment, S8s,s
introdnced,f according to the rPorje'e
instr- ctiors. I'm France the ten. ;tiisyi,
were dropped in December. the 10Th
being called the goth. In Catholic
Switzerland, Germany and the Neither
lands the change was introduced In
the following year: In Poland in 1896
and In Hungary In 1887. Protestant
Germany, Holland and Denmark ac-
cepted 1t in 1700 and Switzerland in
l701. In England the Gregorian caIen-
dar was adopted In 1852.
| Difference ef Thirteen Days.
| The 1st OF January was then adopt-
ed as the beginning OF the legal year,
and 1t was customary for some time
to give two dates for the period in
tervening between January and
March 90. that Of the old and that of
the new year. The difference between
the Julian and Glegorian calendars is
now 13 days
Celebration To-day.
| Christmas will be observed by the
members OF the Greek colony in An
derson. One OF the principal features
OF the program viii be the q dinner
which will be served members of the
colony tonight by Mr.. Gus Antonakas.
In the Piedmont Cafe. 1p S-}g
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