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4 days ago · When is Christmas celebrated? How is Christmas celebrated? Does Christmas have pagan roots? Did Christmas start in Germany? Christmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin.
- Christmas was traditionally a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, but in the early 20th century, it also became a secular family hol...
- Christmas is celebrated by many Christians on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar. For Eastern Orthodox churches that continue to use the Julian...
- Christians and non-Christians participate in some of the most popular Christmas traditions, many of which have no origins in Christianity. These cu...
- In ancient Rome, December 25 was a celebration of the Unconquered Sun, marking the return of longer days. It followed Saturnalia, a festival where...
- Christmas did not start in Germany, but many of the holiday’s traditions began there, including decorating trees. The celebration of Christmas star...
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4 days ago · History of the Roman festival of Saturnalia, with treatment of the celebration and its influence on Christmas.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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4 days ago · Meaning, Christmas already existed by 354 AD. This is confirmed by the document from 204 AD cited above.] For Christianity the Feast of Christmas acquired its definitive form in the fourth century when [Roman pagans stopped celebrating] the Roman Feast of the Sol invictus, the invincible sun.
4 days ago · Christmas Day 2024 (also known as Christmas) is a religious and cultural holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas Day 2024 is celebrated annually by Christians on December 25 in the United States and throughout the world.
3 days ago · Our long, cold winter is one of the many reasons I have embraced the traditional celebration of what Dom Prosper Guéranger, in The Liturgical Year, calls “these Forty Days of Christmas” — the time that spans from “our Saviour’s Birth even to the day of Our Lady’s Purification.”
