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Show Easter a Movable feast. KastcrSunday Is a movable festhal, and cannot come earlier Ithan Mar. 22 or later than Apiil Si, but between these dates It has a range of thirty-live days. At the time of the council of Nice, A. I)., :ii" It was agreed by the rcpiesentatives present that from that time forward Kaster should fall on the tlrst Sunday after the full moon ocenring on or next after March 21, or in other words, "on the lira full moom after the sun crosses the line" which It docs on March 21. Since the above aitangcmcut was adopted by ttie great ecclesiastical council referred to, Kaster has fallen on Match 22, and on every date between be-tween that and April 2.", Its latest possible dale, an event whlch'had not occurred befoic during the nineteenth ccntmy and which will not occur again until the spring of in J.J The last time Kaster fell on Its earliest date was In 1S18 This will not happen hap-pen again during this century or the next. In 18i),"i Kaster fell on March 25. |
