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Bookmark or Share- The Story of Christmas: Origins and Traditions Around the WorldFestivals and Festivities. Christmastime festivities often weave together both religious and cultural traditions. For many people, a candlelit Advent (the four-week season preceding Christmas anticipating the "advent" or arrival of Jesus) initiates the season with spiritual preparation for Christmas. The month of December is filled with a number of significant Christian feast days, including ...
- The First Recorded Celebration of Christmas - ChristianityThis day, December 25, 336, is the first recorded celebration of Christmas. For the first three hundred years of the church's existence, birthdays were not given much emphasis--not even the birth of Christ.
- Christmas | Origin, Definition, Traditions, History, & Facts | BritannicaChristmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin. The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, which referred to the feast of the winter solstice.
- History of Christmas ‑ Origins, Traditions & Facts | HISTORYChristmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States on June 26, 1870. The first eggnog made in the United States was consumed in Captain John Smith’s 1607 Jamestown settlement.
- How Did Christmas Start? The History Behind the HolidayAccording to the Catholic Encyclopedia online, Christmas (or "Mass of Christ") was not one of the earliest celebrations of the Catholic Church. However, in various places around the Holy Land, starting in about 200 AD, masses celebrating Christ's birth became annual events.
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