What kind of “beginning of indictment” are we celebrating on September 14? And what does the failed apocalypse have to do with it?translated

The day of September 14 in Orthodox church calendars has an obscure name - the beginning of the indictment. We are ready to celebrate the New Year, and January 1, and the 14th, and are not averse to joining the New Year holidays according to any other calendar, and we poorly understand why the Russian Church stubbornly continues to count the year from September 14 (September 1, old style) and on this day begins a new liturgical circle of the main, twelve church holidays.

Marina BORISOVA

Julius Caesar vs. Pope Gregory XIII

Indict is a Latin word meaning simply “tax, assignment.” Indiction - a 15-year tax cycle, after which the estates were revalued - was introduced in the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC by Emperor Octavian Augustus. This word came into the Christian calendar when the so-called indicts of Constantine the Great were introduced into the empire - a new calendar system starting in 312. And the New Year holiday was established in 325 in Nicaea by the First Ecumenical Council.

Saints Constantine and Helen around the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord. Vasily Sazonov. 1870

True, in Byzantium the church year did not always begin on September 1: there was an imperial indictment - from 25...