The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ 

event. Thus she received the vision of the Annunciation on February 25, the actual day and month of the 

Annunciation, as well as on March 25, the date of the liturgical celebration of the Annunciation. 

    Jesus Christ was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary on February 25. 

This holy event, the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, occurred about midnight, at the start of February 25.

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completed His 33rd full year of life (from His Holy Conception) at midnight between the 24th and the 25th of 

February. In our culture today, we mark the anniversary of our births as if it were the completion of another 

year of life, but in truth, it is the anniversary of one's conception which marks the completion of each year of 

life. 

    If we count forward 6 weeks (42 days) in the calendar from the day of the Incarnation, we arrive at April 7 

as the day of Christ's death.

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 This date of April 7, for the death of Christ Jesus is exactly 33 years and 6 weeks 

from the date of His Holy Conception, in agreement with the vision given to Blessed Anne Catherine 

Emmerich. February 25 is counted as the 1st day of the 6 weeks because Jesus was conceived about midnight 

at the very beginning of the 25th of the month. So then, February 25 of each year is the first day of each new 

year of Jesus' human life. 

    The date of April 7 for the Crucifixion is also supported by a vision Blessed Anne Catherine had about the 

number of days (not counting the years) from the Ascension of Christ to the death of the Virgin Mary. The 

number of days was revealed to her as 13 days plus two full months. Adding 13 days to the date of Christ's 

Ascension only brings one to the end of a month, (so that two whole months could then be added), if Christ 

died on April 7. His Ascension to Heaven took place then on May 18, on the 40th day from His Resurrection, 

inclusive. Adding 13 days to May 18 brings us to the end of May (see chapter 10). 

An Unlucky Day 

    Nikos Kokkinos points out that April 7 was considered an unlucky day by the Romans, particularly for 

court judgments. The Romans avoided certain types of court judgments on that day. He counts this as 

evidence against a date of April 7 for the Crucifixion.

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    On the contrary, I must ask why the Romans avoided court judgments on that one day of the year. The 

most likely answer is that on that day, April 7, at some point in Roman history, a court judgment was made by 

the Roman government which was later considered to be a serious error. 

    A similar situation occurred after the death of Julius Caesar. The Roman Senate voted that the day on 

which Julius Caesar was killed, the Ides of March,  be called the Day of Parricide, and that a meeting of the 

senate should never be called on that day. 

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 An event occurred on March 15 in the Roman Senate, which was 

considered to be a serious error (parricide refers to killing one's father), and so the Senate decided never again 

to hold a meeting on that day. 

    Now, we do not know for certain which event led to the April 7 admonition. One plausible explanation, 

though, is that Jesus Christ was condemned to death on April 7 by a Roman government official, Pontius 

Pilate. As the Christian faith spread throughout the Roman empire, more and more Roman citizens (and some 

government officials) accepted the faith. The day of the Crucifixion was then seen in retrospect as an unlucky 

day for Roman court judgments, since it was on that day that the Romans gave a court judgment against their 

Savior Jesus Christ. Of course, a negative version of this explanation is also possible. Perhaps those Romans 

who saw the Christians as trouble for the Roman way of life regretted the Crucifixion of Christ only because it 

was the starting point of Christianity. In either case, the outcome would be that the Romans decided never 

again to hold a similar type of court session on that day. 

The Julian and Gregorian Calendars 

    The calendar system currently used by Catholics and most Christians in the West, and which is in general 

use in many countries (including the United States), is called the Gregorian calendar. This calendar places the 

Spring Equinox, when the length of the daytime is about the same as the length of the nighttime, on or about 

March 20 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). 

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