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It's discussed in McNeill's *The Celtic Churches: A History, A.D. 200 to 1200* (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1974). My notes tell me that the Irish celebrated Easter on the Sunday btw 14th and 20th day after 1st full moon after vernal equinox, which for them was on March 25, not 21, and that the Irish used 84 year cycles established at Council of Arles in 314; Romans used Victorine Pascal Table, which implied cycle of 532 years, est in 457. Another place to check might be Bede, since it was such a bee in his bonnet. Maeve At 01:09 PM 11/9/99 -0500, you wrote: >Dear all, > >I am currently teaching a course on the Early Middle Ages, and discussing >the influence of Celtic Christianity and Irish monks on the Church in >Western Europe. Everyone knows about the synod of Whitby, 664, where the >main issue of controversy was the date of the celebration of Easter. >I know how to calculate the Catholic Easter date :-) >But is there anyone on this list who knows when the Celtic church >celebrated Easter? > >All the literature (including Cyrille Vogel, Medieval Liturgy, which gives >almost any other possible calculation of Easter) I have perused is >uncanningly silent on this question. > >Thank you! > > > >Frans van Liere >Department of History, Calvin College >3201 Burton Street SE >Grand Rapids, MI 49506 >e-mail: [log in to unmask] >http://www.calvin.edu/academic/history/vlieref.htm > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%