Year Pope Sylvester I changed the names of the days of the week (Hampson, Medii Aevi Kalendarium, 2 vols., 1841, vol. 2)

Text: "And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. " Daniel 11:36-38 ; "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Daniel 7:25

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Day. [...] The names of the days, from the planets and mythological deities, were ordered by Sylvester, in 316, to be called Feriæ, with their ordinal numbers—Feria secunda, the second day, for Monday, Feria tertia, the third day, Tuesday, &c. See Feria.

Hampson, Robert Thomas, Medii Aevi Kalendarium; or, Dates, charters, and customs of the Middle Ages, with kalendars from the tenth to the fifteenth century: and an alphabetical digest of obsolete names of days: forming a glossary of the dates of the Middle Ages, with tables and other aids for ascertaining dates, 2 vols., London: Henry Kent Causton and Co., 1841, vol. 2, pp. 65-66.


Feria.—A day; in the plural, Feriæ. In 316, Pope Sylvester prohibited the Christians from naming the days of the week after the Jewish manner—prima, secunda, &c., Sabbati; and, as he equally disliked the heathen names from the gods or planets, Dies Soils, Lunæ, &c., Sun-day, Mon, or Moon-day, he ordained that, thenceforth, they should call Monday Feria Secunda; Tuesday, Feria Tertia; Wednesday, Feria Quarta; Thursday, Feria Quinta; Friday, Feria Sexta (Durand. de Off. Div., l. VII, c. 1; Pol. Verg., l. VI, c. 5, p. 366-7). Sunday and Saturday had their own names, the first being Dies Dominica, or Dominicus, and the latter, Sabbatum. [...]

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