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History of the Franks

St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927

Book 1, 23. Of the Day of the Lord’s Resurrection

Now in our belief the Resurrection of the Lord was on the first day, and not on the seventh, as many deem. This is the day of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ which, on account of this His holy rising again, we properly call the Lord’s Day. As at the Creation this was the first day to see the light, so likewise was it worthy first to look upon the Lord rising from the tomb.

From the captivity of Jerusalem and the desolation of the Temple to the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, that is, to the seventeenth year of Tiberius, are computed [six hundred and sixty-eight years].

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