which pope changed the sabbath from saturday to sunday?
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On March 7, 321, however, Roman Emperor Constantine I issued a civil decree making Sunday a day of rest from labor, stating: All judges and city people and the craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun.
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In the United States, Christmas Day (December 25) and the Immaculate Conception (December 8) are always days of obligation. ... To make things even more confusing, some parts of the United States have moved holy days, such as the Ascension from Thursday to the closest Sunday.
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They named the days of the week after the pagan gods of Rome, the Sun and the Moon.
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The second May bank holiday, which is taking place this year on Monday 25 May, replaced Whit Monday as a statutory bank holiday in 1971. Whit Monday is a Christian holiday that is celebrated after the moveable feast of Pentecost, a holy day that is observed 50 days after Easter.
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In Abrahamic religions, the Sabbath (/ˈsæbəθ/; Hebrew: שַׁבָּת‎) is a day set aside for rest and worship. According to the Book of Exodus, the Sabbath is a day of rest on the seventh day, commanded by God to be kept as a holy day of rest, as God rested from creation.
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According to the Book of Exodus, the Sabbath is a day of rest on the seventh day, commanded by God to be kept as a holy day of rest, as God rested from creation. The practice of observing the Sabbath (Shabbat) originates in the biblical commandment "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy".
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The Lord of the Sabbath is an expression describing Jesus which appears in all three Synoptic Gospels, Matthew 12:1-8, Mark 2:23-28 and Luke 6:1-5. These sections each relate an encounter between Jesus, his Apostles and the Pharisees, the first of the four "Sabbath controversies".
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The names for the days of the week in English seem to be a mixed bag. Saturday, Sunday and Monday are named after the celestrial bodies, Saturn, Sun and Moon, but the other days are named after Germanic gods, Tuesday (Tiw's day), Wednesday (Woden's day), Thursday (Thor's day) and Friday (Freya's day).
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It is impossible to state exactly what day was the first. There was a ''calculation'' performed by a Bishop in Ireland in the 1600s where he 'proved' that if you take the bible literally, the world was formed on Sunday 23 October 4004 BC (the calculation makes no mention of the time of day).
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Yom Teru'ah (Feast of Trumpets) on the first day of the seventh month; the second is Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement); and two during the feast of Sukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles) on the first and last day. ... The Gospel of John says of the day beginning following Christ's death, "that sabbath day was a high day" (19:31–42).
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Concordat of Worms (1122) On September 23, 1122, near the German city of Worms, Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V entered into an agreement, now known as the Concordat of Worms, that effectively ended the Investiture Controversy.
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Background. According to the biblical narrative, when God revealed the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at biblical Mount Sinai, they were commanded to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy by not doing any work and allowing the whole household to cease from work.
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Tuesday comes from Tiu, or Tiw, the Anglo-Saxon name for Tyr, the Norse god of war. Tyr was one of the sons of Odin, or Woden, the supreme deity after whom Wednesday is named. Similarly, Thursday originates from Thor, the god of thunder. Friday is derived from Frigga, the wife of Odin, representing love and beauty.
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In 1908, a New England mill became the first American factory to institute the five-day week. It did so to accommodate Jewish workers, whose observance of a Saturday sabbath forced them to make up their work on Sundays, offending some in the Christian majority.
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Holy days are like Sundays in that Catholics must attend Mass, and if possible, refrain from unnecessary servile work. ... However, if any of the other holy days falls on a Saturday or Monday, they aren't considered holy days of obligation, because they're back-to-back with Sunday.
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Sunday was another work day in the Roman Empire. On March 7, 321, however, Roman Emperor Constantine I issued a civil decree making Sunday a day of rest from labor, stating: All judges and city people and the craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun.
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No other day has ever been sanctified as the day of rest. The Sabbath Day begins at sundown on Friday and ends at sundown on Saturday. Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 20:8-11; Isaiah 58:13-14; 56:1-8; Acts 17:2; Acts 18:4, 11; Luke 4:16; Mark 2:27-28; Matthew 12:10-12; Hebrews 4:1-11; Genesis 1:5, 13-14; Nehemiah 13:19.