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Christmas Around the World (Paperback)
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Christmas Around the World (Paperback)
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Have you ever wanted to learn more about the origins of Christmas,
or how Christmas is celebrated in different countries? This turn of
the century book offers a great introduction to Christmas.
Certainly Yule-tide was a very merry season among the ancient
people who feasted, drank, and danced in honor of the return of the
sun, the god of light and new life.
When messengers went through the various countries bearing tidings
of a new religion and of the birth of a Son who brought light and
new life into the whole world, they endeavored to retain as many of
the established customs as possible, but gave to the old-time
festivals a finer character and significance.
As the fact of Christ's birth was not recorded and there was no
certainty as to its date, the early Christian Fathers very wisely
ascribed it to Yule-tide, changing the occasion from the birthday
of the sun to that of the Son. For a while the birth of Christ was
celebrated on dates varying from the first to the sixth of January;
on the dates of certain religious festivals such as the Jewish
Passover or the Feast of Tabernacles; but the twenty-fifth of
December, the birthday of the sun, was ever the favorite date.
Pope Julius, who reigned from 337 to 352 A. D., after a careful
investigation, considered it settled beyond doubt that Christ was
born on or about the twenty-fifth of December, and by the end of
the fifth century that date was very generally accepted by
Christians. The transition from the old to the new significance of
Yule-tide was brought about so quietly and naturally that it made
no great impression on the mind of the masses, so nothing authentic
can be learned of the early observance of Christmas.
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