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Rh as "The beginning of the Indict, that is of the new year," and they say in their Menologion (p. 402) that on this day our Lord began his public life by preaching in the synagogue at Nazareth, when he took the scroll and read Isaias' prophecy: "The spirit of the Lord is upon me," &c. (St. Luke iv. 16-30). The civil Indiction of the Eastern Empire began on this day. The first great fasting-time, which corresponds to our Advent, begins on November 15th, "the fast of Christ's birth," and lasts till Christmas Eve—forty days. Then comes Christmas (December 25th) with its cycle of feasts. The Easter fast (Lent) begins on the Monday after the sixth Sunday before Easter (our Quinquagesima); they do not fast on Saturdays nor Sundays during this time. They prepare for Lent by abstaining from flesh meat after the seventh Sunday before Easter (Sexagesima), which they call "Sunday of Meatlessness", but they still eat butter and cheese during the week, and they call it "cheese-week". The really severe fast, including abstinence from meat, cheese, butter, eggs, &c., begins after the sixth Sunday before Easter. For the tenth week before Easter (the week before our Septuagesima) they have an attractive rubric: "It should be known that the horrid Armenians keep their abominable fast, which they call Artziburion, three or four times during this week; but we eat cheese and eggs every day, thereby refuting their dogma and heresy." The cycle of Holy Week and Easter then comes, as with us; and Ascension Day and Whit Sunday follow, of course, on the fortieth and fiftieth days after Easter. The fast