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I'm still not clear on this after all these years, though admittedly, I haven't researched it much. But I did find this just now:
At this point of the Fifth Chasm of the Eighth Circle it is five hours earlier than the time of Christ’s death, at noon, so it is 7am Saturday. (As the Easter of the year 1300 =1266+34 full years from the crucifixion on Good Friday, supposing Christ to be incarnated in December of BC1 and to die at age 33, celebrating the anniversary of his 33rd year in December 33AD)
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/DantnotesInf.htmYet this just makes it even more confusing, since it says "five hours earlier than the time of Christ’s death, at noon, so it is 7am Saturday" - in other words, not on Friday! I don't get it. Was there a belief that Christ was crucified on Good Friday but did not die until Saturday?
I have always thought that Christ was Crucified and died on Good Friday and was resurrected on Easter SUnday. That is what I remember from Catechism classes.
