I get that.
But I don't get why I was told it was because pope Gregory changed the calendar. That didn't make any sense to me, why would that add or subtract a whole century? I think my world history teacher didn't want to bother with me.
Anyway, which war of the second half of the twentieth century was Our Lady referring to?
It's sort of difficult to pin down only one war because it seems there's been perpetual war going on since WWII. I assume it's the six days war since it took less than a week to totally dismantle the holy land, and they've been fighting over it ever since with various other countries and entities sporadically involved over the years.
As is very common with history teachers, they don't really know any
history, so when they try to pretend, and students catch them in their
lies, they get angry with the students.
Pope Gregory is he after whom the Gregorian Calendar is named, and
that replaced the Julian Calendar of the Romans.
The change to the Gregorian Calendar is not where we get the names
of the centuries. Any century A.D. is named after its LAST YEAR. The
centuries Before Christ are named after their first year. The first
century B.C. starts at 100 B.C. and goes to 1 B.C., and the second
century B.C. starts at 200 B.C. and goes to 101 B.C. The 15th century
B.C. starts with 1500 B.C. and goes to 1401 B.C. In both cases (A.D.
and B.C.) there are 99 years in each century that do NOT contain
the numerals of that century, and you have to ADD a hundred years
to the name. It only SEEMS like you're adding a a century, though --
you are only doing what the facts of history demand that the name is.
Your history teacher didn't explain that because he did not know it!
And unlike you, HE DID NOT CARE, EITHER.
The reason it was done was to correct the error that had been building
up every year when they did not account for leap year, and so the first
day of the year (which was then April 1st) was moving down toward
summer, and farmers were not planting their crops at the right time
because they were confused.
The correction entailed the arbitrary historical abolition of some 20 or
more days because February 29th had been missing for so many years.
It was far too complicated to go back and add in Feb. 29th and bump
all the dates down one day for each 4 years. So they just wiped out
a bunch of days and called it even.
After the new calendar came out, and the confusion was resolved, there
were still people who were hanging on to the old calendar. Then when
New Year was changed to January 1st instead of April 1st, some people
still hung on to that too. This is where "April Fools' Day" comes from.
The "joke" is on those who won't modernize, basically.
See where this is going?
Now, the Modernists try to pull that stunt on Trad Catholics who won't
get "up with the times" and use the Newmass liturgy, or at least the
1962 "legitimate" TLM. If you prefer the same Mass of Pope St. Pius X
and Padre Pio and St. Alphonsus de Ligori and St. John Bosco and St.
Therese of Lisieux and just about every other credible saint in the
Church, then you're somehow "anachronistic." You're just not
with it. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. Good joke, huh?
As for the "war" Our Lady spoke of at Fatima, she said that a worse
war (worse than the current one which was WWI) would break out
when an unknown light would fill the sky. That light happened at the
very first movement of WWII, months before any shots were fired.
In that aspect, the war she was talking about was WWII, but that
doesn't mean that's the only war she was indicating with other words.
When she said "various nations will be annihilated," it does not mean
that had to be WWII, for example.
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