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Sorry for my ignorance but I just got to know that the Russians don't celebrate X'mas on December 25!
Updates: Orthodox Christians including the Russians and Serbians celebrate X'mas on January 7.
Sorry for my ignorance but I just got to know that the Russians don't celebrate X'mas on December 25!
Updates: Orthodox Christians including the Russians and Serbians celebrate X'mas on January 7.
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In Serbia we celebrate Christmas like Russians - January 7th. January 6th is Christmas Eve. It is because our church uses different calendar.
Here's a useful explanatory excerpt from Wikipedia.
"The Orthodox churches of Jerusalem, Russia, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Poland and the Greek Old Calendarists did not accept the Revised Julian calendar, and continue to celebrate Christmas on 25 December in the Julian calendar, which is 7 January in the Gregorian calendar until 2100. The refusal to accept the Gregorian reforms also has an impact on the date of Easter. This is because the date of Easter is determined with reference to 21 March as the functional equinox, which continues to apply in the Julian calendar, even though the civil calendar in the native countries now use the Gregorian calendar."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption_by_Orthodox_Churches
Thanks Marija for the info! :D
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