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Oh, Jesus! He’s older

  • Last Updated: 2:36 AM, November 22, 2012
  • Posted: 12:09 AM, November 22, 2012

He should have remembered to carry the VI.

Thanks to a math error by a sixth-century monk named Dennis the Small, Jesus may be as many as six years older than previously thought, Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book.

In “Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives,” the pontiff says the Christian calendar is in error because the monk bungled his calculations when he invented the concept of the Anno Domini era.

rita.delfiner@nypost.

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