Best Source Tying Genesis 1 to Not Much Longer than 24 Hour Days

Best Source Tying Genesis 1 to Not Much Longer than 24 Hour Days · So, a Priest Said "Anno ... quinquies millesimo centesimo nonagesimo nono" and Read Fulcran Vigouroux in Seminar ... · So, If the Authentic Magisterium Says We Should Believe Science, Should We?

For the Catholic Church as a whole, the one best source, published between 1859 and 1960?

Well, I obviously gave the Roman Martyrology for Christmas Day, because unlike Johannes Veith or Athanasius Bosozio, it really does speak for the whole Church.

You know the passage which says "In the year five thousand one hundred ninety-ninth from the beginning" ...

But was it published between 1859 and 1960?

I just checked October 3rd.

Sanctae Teresiae a Jesu Infante, ex Ordine Carmelitarum Excalceatorum, Virginis, peculiaris omnium Missionum Patronae; cujus dies natalis pridie Kalendas Octobris recensetur.

She died 30 September 1897, and was canonised 17 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI.

Any Roman Martyrology which contains her name must be from 1925 or later. Those of the pre-Vatican II liturgy continued to print:

Anno a creatione mundi, quando in principio Deus creavit caelum et terram, quinquies millesimo centesimo nonagesimo nono; a diluvio autem, anno bis millesimo nongentesimo quinquagesimo septimo; a nativitate Abrahae, anno bis millesimo quintodecimo; a Moyse et egressu populi Israel de Aegypto, anno millesimo quingentesimo decimo; ab unctione David in Regem, anno millesimo trigesimo secundo; ...

In fact, I think this was even continued up to 1992 or sth, and then a new text was written which instead has:

Innumeris transactis saeculis a creatione mundi, quando in principio Deus creavit caelum et terram et hominem formavit ad imaginem suam;		when ages beyond number had run their course from the creation of the world, when God in the beginning created heaven and earth, and formed man in his own likeness;
permultis etiam saeculis, ex quo post diluvium Altissimus in nubibus arcum posuerat, signum fœderis et pacis;		when century upon century had passed since the Almighty set his bow in the clouds after the Great Flood, as a sign of covenant and peace;
a migratione Abrahæ, patris nostri in fide, de Ur Chaldæorum saeculo vigesimo primo;		in the twenty-first century since Abraham, our father in faith, came out of Ur of the Chaldees;
ab egressu populi Israël de Ægypto, Moyse duce, saeculo decimo tertio;		in the thirteenth century since the People of Israel were led by Moses in the Exodus from Egypt;
ab unctione David in regem, anno circiter millesimo;		around the thousandth year since David was anointed King;

This new text is definitely wrong on when the Exodus happened. That was an anti-Biblical conjecture, based on modern learning or unlearning.

So, any Roman Martyrology or Missal involving the Christmas proclamation, any of them printed after 1859 and some of these after 1925, excludes taking Genesis 1 as involving very long periods or as involving a very long unaccounted for gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

It does so on behalf of the Church.

It cannot even be reconciled with the positions of Fulcran Vigouroux or Cardinal Wiseman, proponents respectively of Day-Age theory or Gap Theory, but who pretty certainly held to the post-Adamic chronology in the Bible very solidly. Why? Because it doesn't just say "quando Deus hominem formavit ad imaginem suam" but "quando in principio Deus creavit caelum et terram," ... the reference is not to the creation of man, which could be considered as completion of other creation acts further back (equally "innumeris seculis" in that fog), the reference was to the creation of heaven and earth. You know the moments non-Christians often believe to have happened 13.8 and 4.5 billion years ago.

And yes, the ceremonies of the Church are supposed to reflect the faith of the Church, so all these printers of the Roman Martyrology, each of the bishops or for this item more probably Popes or secretaries to such giving it an Imprimatur, were by that fact stating that the heaven and the earth were created 5199 years earlier than Jesus was born.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi
29.V.2024

Sanctae Mariae-Magdalenae de Pazzis, ex Ordine Carmelitarum, Virginis, cujus dies natalis octavo Kalendas Junii recensetur.