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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Quartodecimanism
		Quartodecimanism ("fourteenism", derived from Latin) refers to the practice of fixing the celebration of Passover for Christians on the fourteenth day of Nisan in the Old Testament's Hebrew Calendar (for example, in Latin "quarta decima").
		Quartodecimanism was popular among Christians in Asia Minor and it is generally believed that this was the method specifically preferred by the followers of John the Apostle, since it was advocated by Polycarp who was a disciple of either John the Apostle or John the Presbyter, assuming they are not the same person.
		(Eusebius H.E. Pope Victor I excommunicates the Quartodecimans
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	Quartodecimanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quartodecimanism (Latin for "fourteenism") was the practice of fixing the celebration of Passover for Christians on the 14th day of Nisan in the Bible's Hebrew Calendar (Lev 23:5), which according to the Gospel of John, was the date Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem.
		Quartodecimanism was popular among Christians in Asia Minor and it is generally believed that this was the method specifically preferred by the followers of John the Apostle, since it was advocated by Polycarp who was a disciple of either John the Apostle or John the Presbyter, assuming they are not the same person.
		Despite this schism, the Quartodecimans Melito of Sardis and Polycarp, for example, are both recognized as Saints by both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quartodecimanism (1264 words)

	Quartodecimanism - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Quartodecimanism ("fourteenism") was the practice of fixing the date of Easter (in the Bible called Pesach) to the 14th day of Nisan in the Bible's Hebrew Calendar which, according to the Gospels, was the time Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem.
		Quartodecimanism was popular among Christians in Asia Minor and it is generally believed that this was the method specifically preferred by the followers of the Apostle John, since it was advocated by St Polycarp, a student of the Apostle.
		Despite this schism, the Quartodecimans Melito of Sardis and Polycarp, for example, are both recognized as Saints by both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Quartodecimanism (420 words)

	Quartodecimanism - TheBestLinks.com - Asia Minor, Common Era, Catholic, Easter, ...
		Quartodecimanism ("fourteenism") was the practice of fixing the date of Pascha (Easter) to the 14th day of Nisan in the Jewish Calendar.
		Quartodecimanism was not a heresy, nor was it a schism.
		Quartodecimans Melito of Sardis and Polycarp, for example, are both recognized as Saints by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
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	quartodecimanism - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Quartodecimanism ("fourteenism") was the practice of fixing the date of Pesach (Easter) to the 14th day of Nisan in the Jewish Calendar.
		Despite this schism, the Quartodecimans Melito of Sardis and Polycarp, for example, are both recognized as Saints by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
		In 325CE, the First Council of Nicaea came to a decision that the Church as a whole should use a unified system, which was the Roman one.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Quartodecimanism (244 words)

	Keith Hunt - Quartodeciman Controversy
		Yet the controversy, called Quartodecimanism from the fourteenth day of Nisan, long remained an unpleasant memory." Notice - the bishops of Asia Minor - the churches of the EAST held to the 14th of Nisan for commemorating the death of Christ.
		QUARTODECIMAN, a term used to describe the practice in the early Church of celebrating Easter on the 14th of Nisan (die quarta decima), the day of the Jewish Passover (Ex 12.6).
		Quartodecimanism, prevalent in Asia Minor and Syria in the 2d century, emphasized the death of Christ, the true Paschal victim (Jn 18.28; 19.42), while Roman practice emphasized the observance of Sunday as the day of the Resurrection.
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	Audianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their heretical beliefs included both anthropomorphism (holding that God has human form) and quartodecimanism (honouring the death of Christ on the same day as the Jewish Passover).
		The First Council of Nicaea, which attempted to unify the early church, finally outlawed quartodecimanism.
		Emperors Constantine the Great and Theodosius I legislated against the Audians, but the sect was still practicing quartodecimanism in Syrian Antioch in the 380s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Audianism (163 words)

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		Quartodecimanism was not a heresy, nor was it a schism.
		Quartodecimans HYPERLINK "http://melito-of-sardis.wikiverse.org/" \o "Melito of Sardis" Melito of Sardis and Polycarp, for example, are both recognized as Saints by both the HYPERLINK "http://catholic.wikiverse.org/" \o "Catholic" Roman Catholic and HYPERLINK "http://eastern-orthodoxy.wikiverse.org/" \o "Eastern Orthodoxy" Eastern Orthodox Churches.
		As the Quartodecimans were in the minority, their method ended up not being used.
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	Quartodecimanism: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Quartodecimanism ("fourteenism") was the practice of fixing the date of Pesach Easter quick summary:
		Easter is the most important holiday of the christian year, observed in march, april, or may each year to celebrate the resurrection of jesus...
		However Anicetus' successor Pope Victor I[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] later excommunicated the Quatodecimans for not adhering to the Easter practices of Rome thereby alienating them.
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	Anthropomorphism - LoveToKnow 1911
		Many have thought Melito's work, 7rfpli ivo'wpArov 6Ea, must have been a treatise on the Incarnation; but it is hard to think that Origen could blunder so.
		Epiphanius tells of Audaeus of Mesopotamia and his followers, Puritan sectaries in the 4th century, who were orthodox except for this belief and for Quartodecimanism (see Easter).
		Tertullian, who is sometimes called an anthropomorphist, stood for the Stoical doctrine, that all reality, even the divine, is in a sense material.
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		Quartodecimanism was popular among Christians in Asia Minor and it is generally believed that this was the method specifically preferred by the followers of John the Apostle, since it was advocated by Polycarp who was a disciple of either John the Apostle (or John the Presbyter, assuming they are not to be identified).
		Currently some smaller groups (some Sabbatarian Church of God groups, for example) have a Quartodeciman observance, and celebrate a Christian Passover on that day --they typically use unleavened bread and wine, but do not have a Passover sedar like the Jews do.
		Perhaps the earliest extant primary source referencing Easter is a 2nd century [http://www.preteristarchive.com/Books/0150_melito_pascha.html Paschal homily] by Melito of Sardis, which characterizes the celebration as a well-established one.
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	Easter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perhaps the earliest extant primary source referencing Easter is a 2nd century Paschal homily by Melito of Sardis, which characterizes the celebration as a well-established one.
		A number of ecclesiastical historians, primarily Eusebius, bishop Polycarp of Smyrna, by tradition a disciple of John the Evangelist, disputed the computation of the date with bishop Anicetus of Rome in what is now known as the Quartodecimanism controversy.
		For example, Quartodecimanism was the practice of setting the holiday on the 14th day of the Jewish month of Nisan, which is the day of preparation for Passover.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Easter (5037 words)

	Dining With the Almighty:
		But in the past year or so, my church has completely abandoned Quartodecimanism, instead adopting a view more in line with the beliefs and practices of the majority of Christians-that the Eucharist need not after all be limited to the annual observance of Passover (nor indeed to any particular day or days).
		Quartodecimanism was not and is not what we once thought it to be.
		Since Quartodecimanism was born in the original Jewish worship culture of Christianity, it will surely shed further light on this subject to inquire into the liturgical customs of Jewish Christians in the first three centuries of the Church's history.
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	Top Literature - Constantine I (emperor)
		As a result, Church controversies, which had been lively within the Christian communities since the mid-2nd century, now flared in public schisms, often with violence.
		Congregations for religious services were restricted, but Jews were also allowed to enter Jerusalem on Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the Second Temple.
		Constantine also supported the separation of the date of Easter from the Jewish Passover (see also Quartodecimanism), stating in his letter after the First Council of Nicaea: "...
	encyclopedia.topliterature.com /?title=Constantine_I_(emperor) (3417 words)

	Easter
		Perhaps the earliest extant primary source referencing Easter is a 2nd century [http://www.preteristarchive.com/Books/0150_melito_pascha.html Paschal homily] by Melito of Sardis, which characterizes the celebration as a well-established one.
		A number of ecclesiastical historians, primarily Eusebius, bishop Polycarp of Smyrna, by tradition a disciple of John the Evangelist, disputed the computation of the date with bishop Anicetus of Rome in what is now known as the Quartodecimanism controversy.
		In Western Christianity, Easter marks the end of the forty days of Lent, a period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter which begins on Ash Wednesday.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Easter Controversy
		After the pope's strong measures the Quartodecimans seem to have gradually dwindled away.
		Gregory the Great found the British Christians, the representatives of that Christianity which had been introduced into Britain during the period of the Roman occupation, still adhering to an ancient system of Easter-computation which Rome itself had laid aside.
		The British and Irish Christians were not Quartodecimans, as some unwarrantably accused them of being, for they kept the Easter festival upon a
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	Quartodecimanism - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Quartodecimanism (literally "fourteenism") was the practice of fixing the celebration of Passover for Christians on the 14th day of Nisan in the Bible's Hebrew Calendar which, according to the Gospels, was the date Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem.
		For various reasons, the Roman Catholics eventually chose to use a different method than the Jews and Jewish Christians had used for their Passover.
		The vast majority of Christians abide by this decision and observe Easter on a Sunday, although the method for calculating which Sunday varies.
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	The First Church of Rome Part 5
		"Quartodecimans", properly speaking, were sectarians like Blastus who said the Passover MUST be celebrated on the 14th Nisan.
		Irenaeus opposed their legalism; nevertheless, he upheld the right of all believers to celebrate the Last Supper on the evening of the 14th Nisan, as the Apostles had done, so long as that was not made a LAW.
		The orthodox accused the Montanizing heretics in the later second and early third centuries AD of imitating the "Castus" or "ascetic fast" of the Attis cult and this in turn, according to Arnobius, was specifically an imitation of the Eleusinian rite.
	www.christianhospitality.org /pages_20items/pt5_first_church_rome.htm (11189 words)

	Easter controversy - Calendar Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Further, Irenaeus states that St. Polycarp, who like the other Eastern Christians, kept Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon, whatever day of the week that might be, following therein the tradition which he claimed to have derived from St. John the Apostle.
		The Roman missionaries coming to England in the time of St. Gregory the Great found the British Christians, the representatives of that Christianity which had been introduced into Britain during the period of the Roman occupation, still adhering to an ancient system of Easter computation which Rome itself had laid aside.
		The British and Irish Christians were not Quartodecimans, for they kept the Easter festival upon a Sunday.
	calendars.wikia.com /wiki/Easter_controversy (894 words)

	The True Origin of EASTER
		A series of extensive quotes tell this story—commonly referred to as the “Quartodeciman Controversy.” Several sources are quoted so that the story of how the counterfeit Easter came to replace Passover will be perfectly clear.
		The 1967 New Catholic Encyclopedia states, “Quartodeciman, a term used to describe the practice in the early Church of celebrating Easter on the 14th of Nisan (die quarta decima), the day of the Jewish Passover (Ex.
		Quartodecimanism, prevalent in Asia Minor and Syria in the 2nd century, emphasized the death of Christ, the true Paschal victim (Jn.
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	Pilgrims Pathway Assembly : Special Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Quartodecimanism (Latin for "fourteenism") was the practice of fixing the celebration of Passover for Christians on the 14th day of
		Quartodecimanism signifies Jesus shedding His precious blood and being our sacrificial Lamb on an actual date and it ties into Passover which completes the true Celebration, incorporating His Resurrection and Eternal Life by keeping away the “destroyer”.
		Of course we must also celebrate His Resurrection and the gift of Eternal Life as well and this is where celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus also ties into Passover’s symbolism.
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