Enciclopedia Cattolica

Ecclesiastical Computation

COMPUTO ECCLESIASTICO

Volume IV · p. 83 · 1950

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ECCLESIASTICAL COMPUTUS. – It is defined by writers as: “knowledge of the course of the moon and of the kalends, or the science of determining time according to the course of the moon and the sun.” It comprises the information necessary for determining Easter, namely the nineteen-year, lunar, and solar cycles, the epacts, and the concurrent days. Charlemagne made it one of the subjects to be taught in schools. S. Beda the Venerable devoted two books of his didactic works to it (De temporum ratione and De ratione comput. Pl. 90, 295–578, 579–600).

Carmelo Trasselli

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“COMPUTO ECCLESIASTICO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), p. 83. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/computo-ecclesiastico.