Divine Lexicon

Term

Quartodeciman

Those who observed an annual remembrance of the passion of Jesus on the fourteenth of the month, the date of the Passover.

Filed underHistorical TheologyChurch History

Definition

Those who observed the fourteenth of the month. This name came from their practice of observing an annual remembrance of the passion of Jesus on the date of the Passover.

Sources

  1. 1.Everett Ferguson Church History: Volume One: From Christ to Pre-Reformation. 2nd ed.. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013). 139Original citation: Ferguson, Everett. Church History. Volume One: From Christ to Pre-Reformation. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013, 139.

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