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On the first of September, the Church of Christ celebrates the Indiction, which according to the Romans means the “limit,” that is, the beginning of the Church year. This term came from the practice of the Roman emperors of levying each year a tax upon their subjects for the maintenance of the army. The rate of this yearly tax was fixed every fifteen years. Hence, the Indiction is also the name given to the cycles of fifteen years which began under Caesar Augustus three years before the Nativity of Christ.
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