In harmony with this, historian John Laurence von Mosheim reports that the second  century Christians in Asia Minor were accustomed to observing the Memorial of Jesus death on the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month Nisan It was only in later years that it became customary in Christendom to observe it more often than once a year  Footnote
या अनुषंगाने, इतिहासकार जॉन लॉरन्स वॉन मोशीम यांनी असा अहवाल दिला की आशिया मायनरमधील दुसऱ्‍या शतकातील ख्रिश्‍चनांचा, येशूच्या मृत्यूचा स्मारकविधी “पहिल्या यहुदी महिन्याच्या [निसान] चौदाव्या दिवशी ” साजरा करण्याचा रिवाज होता.