flash wrote:That never occurred to me, but of course they would. There are a couple of monasteries on Mt. Athos, I think, who are still using it.You mean Orthodox, I presume. The Russian Orthodox church carried the Old-Candendrist traditions to Alaska, so even some people in North America were still using the Julian calendar until quite (in Church terms) recently.-- Patricia M. Godfrey priscamg@xxxxxxxx