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The Problem With the Roman Calendar
Early Christians just kept on with the Roman calendar and didn't really change it at all, except probably with a man named Dionysius exiguous. He was the one that said, why should we good Christians be keeping a Roman calendar? Shouldn't we have a calendar based on the life of Christ? So he was the first one that really focused on the day of Easter. And that's when the problem started to arise with the calendar because Easter is essentially an inheritance from a lunar calendar.