Salvete omnes,
one day to Christmas' Eve - time moves without any pause, doesn't it?
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| the Magi traveling to pay homage to Baby Jesus at Bethlehem |
A quick entry:
firstly, I often listen to the podcasts by a Wroclaw University professor of classics, Gosciwit Malinowski, and his last podcast was, inter alia, about the invention of the Anno Domini dating by the Roman provincial from Scythia Minor, named Dionysius Exiguus. [professor's podcast is in Polish] in Rome, in the VI century AD.
Secondly, while Dionysius Exiguus created the concept of year 1 AD, it was Polish Jesuit priest, father Wawrzyniec (Laurentius) Susliga or Suslyga (1570-1640), who in 1605 AD at Graz University presented his doctoral thesis titled 'Theoremata de anno ortus et mortis Domini, deque universa Jesu Christi in carne oeconomia,' bring the birth year of Christ to year 4 BC or shortly thereafter .
Nota bene our Jesuit was also a preacher and poet and the astronomer Johannes Kepler knew of his ideas and perhaps used them to bolster his own theory about the Star of Bethlehem.
Finally, one of my favorite ancient history podcasters, and fiction writer, dr Adrian Goldsworthy published a podcast on the historical evidence the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
and some XIX century oil paintings on beehives' boards [sic!] from Slovenia -
enjoy
Valete
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