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The Roman context of the spread of Christianity meant that Rome contributed a lot to the structure and calendar of the new faith
The Babylonians named each of the days after one of the five planetary bodies known to them (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) and after the Sun and the Moon, a custom later adopted by the Romans.
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