SAINT DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS AND HIS APOLOGETICAL WORK IN ROME
SAINT DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS AND HIS APOLOGETICAL WORK IN ROME

Summary/Abstract: From all those illustrated above, one can conclude on the Scythian monk’s genuine tendency for the Christian Church calendar. It is quite sure that, in addition to a very good knowledge of the Alexandrian chronology, the Holy Father was definitely helped by “astrological knowledge which Deceneus' reform, about 600 years before, had put in the hands of Burebista’s DacoGetae all over the Daco centralized state, including Scythia Minor, teaching them to contemplate the 12 signs of the zodiac, the course of the planets, the rise and fall of the moon, the extent to which the solar disc exceeds the surface of the earth, the race of the 346 stars around the celestial pole and the complete astrology”.

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