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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIV: The First Ecumenical Council: The First Council of Nice.: On the Keeping of Easter.

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From the Letter of the Emperor to all those not present at the Council. (Found in Eusebius, Vita Const., Lib. iii., 18–20.) When the question relative to the sacred festival of Easter arose, it was universally thought that it would be convenient that all should keep the feast on one day; for what could be more beautiful and more desirable, than to see this festival, through which we receive the hope of immortality, celebrated by all with one accord, and in the same manner?