Section: Continuing Ibn al-Batriq’s account of the Christians and his discussion of it

He said:

In that era the Patriarch of Alexandria wrote to the Bishop of Jerusalem, the Patriarch of Antioch, and the Patriarch of Rome about the calculation of the Christians’ Pascha and their fast, and how that calculation is derived from the Jewish Passover. They produced numerous treatises on the matter, establishing the method that is still followed today.

He said:

This was because, after our Lord Jesus the Messiah had ascended to—