A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Quartodecimani

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QUARTODECIMANI, a denomination in the second century; so called because they maintained that Easter day was always to be celebrated, conformably to the custom of the Jews, on the fourteenth day of the moon of March, whatever day of the month that happened to be.[1]


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  1. Broughton, vol. ii. p. 307.