The atrocities of the evil Rome as the real and the real false prophet revealed to me by our Lord Jesus Christ

The following king, Numa Pompilius, is accredited with the addition of Januarius and Februarius, as winter months, to the calendar. Other reforms are often attributed to the Etruscan King Tarquinius Priscus, who ruled between 616 and 579 BC. These additions and the rest of the calendar were months, however, were still based on a lunar cycle, making the Roman year 355 days long. The ancient astronomers did have at least limited knowledge of the Solar year, and periodic adjustments were made to bring the calendar in line with the appropriate season. Every other year a month called Mercedinus was inserted after February (March was the beginning of the year) adding 23 or 24 days to the year. Mercedinus, which translates as payment for work, was the time when property lessees paid rents due to their landlords.

Later in the Republic, Mercedinus gradually became known as Intercalans and could have variable lengths to right the seasons to the weather. It simply meant an inserted length of time into the calendar. It was the duty of the Pontifex Maximus to decide when and how long an Intercalans would be implemented.

The Romans referred to years in a couple of ways. Each year was recorded as a length of time from the traditional founding of Rome, in 753 BC. The Latin term Ab Urbe Condita, abbreviated as AUC, literally meaning from the founding of the city, was the correct terminology. Additionally, years could be referred to as the year in which a particular Consul was in office. For example, the modern year 59 BC, would’ve been known as 694 AUC, or the year of the first consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar. Three days were structured with particular importance in the Roman calendar. The periods in between these intervals were of various lengths, and days were counted backwards to the appropriate major day. For example, as the Calends was the first day of the month, March 23rd would be referred to as 9 days before the Calends of April.

Calends (or Kalends) – Occurred on the first day of every month and it had more days than the other two periods combined. It spanned more than two lunar phases, starting from the day after a full moon and continuing through the moon’s last quarter and waning period, then past the dark new moon until another lunar crescent was sighted. The day of Kalends began a new month. It was dedicated to the god Juno.