 In 1954, after much debate, the punishment was changed to the harsher degree of excommunication, "vitandi" (shunned).Later the Second Vatican Council removed the Day of the Holy Circumcision from the church calendar in its review of holy days and obligations.In reality, it was more than two years before 11 October 1962, the date when the Second Vatican Council began, that a 25 July 1960 decree of Pope John XXIII enacted a wide-ranging revision of the General Roman Calendar, which included changing the name of the 1 January feast from "Circumcision of the Lord and Octave of the Nativity" to "Octave of the Nativity", with no change of the Gospel reading about the circumcision of the child Jesus.