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From: Evola
Another oddity was spotted by Julius Africanus in the third century in the claim made in Luke, 23:44-45 ('And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst'), as well as, albeit less explicitly, in Matthew 27:45 and in Mark 15:33, and unanimously supported by early Church fathers, that a solar eclipse occured during the crucifixion. Indeed, Julius Africanus pointed out that a solar eclipse is an astronomical impossibility near Easter.
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From: Evola
Another oddity was spotted by Julius Africanus in the third century in the claim made in Luke, 23:44-45 ('And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst'), as well as, albeit less explicitly, in Matthew 27:45 and in Mark 15:33, and unanimously supported by early Church fathers, that a solar eclipse occured during the crucifixion. Indeed, Julius Africanus pointed out that a solar eclipse is an astronomical impossibility near Easter.
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That because the Easter has always been celebrated starting from the Plenilune following the spring equinox (solar ingress into Aries); 8 days after for the Jews; the first successive Sunday for the Christians (also today).
Obviously a plenilune cannot coincide with a solar eclipse, only a new moon can.