25 we celebrate christmas a day for spending time with family observing an important christian holiday partaking in lighthearted traditions or just spreading some holiday cheer. By the 4th century the early church had plumped for january 6th but as the religion gained popularity across the roman empire they realised that christmas day was competing with the.
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There are various diverse traditions and theories justifying the reason of christmas being celebrated on december 25th.
December 25th is christmas day. The bible didn t give any specific details on the exact date or year that christ was born and many have speculated when the actual date was. On december 25th each year over 2 billion people over a third of the world s population will celebrate the birth of christ. Traditionally christians claim christmas as the day on which jesus christ the son of god was born.
It has been suggested that christians in the 4th century assigned december 25th as christ s birthday and hence christmas because pagans already observed this day as a holiday. World red cross day 2019. If we dig a little deeper into this rabbit hole we find that this date was not chosen by random chance.
Most christians today probably can t imagine christmas on any other day than december 25 but it wasn t always that way. A feast central to the christian liturgical year it is preceded by the season of advent or the nativity fast and initiates the season of christmastide which historically in the west lasts twelve days and culminates on twelfth night. Why of all the days in the year was december 25th chosen as christmas day.
Christmas or feast of the nativity is an annual festival commemorating the birth of jesus christ observed primarily on december 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. Christmas has evolved over several millennia into a worldwide celebration that s both religious and secular and chock full of fun filled family activities. In some traditions christmastide includes.
As per the winter solstice the difference between the day and night in winters is minimal as per the roman culture of festivals between december 21st to 22nd and also the jewish festivals of light fall on the 25th of the same time as that of december. Many ancient civilizations such as the egyptians persians babylonians greeks romans etc venerated this day. So this might also be the reason to celebrate christmas on 25th december for the early church after collecting many shreds of evidence and concluding many theories related to this.
Every year on dec. Well there is more to this story than what meets the eye. In fact for the first three centuries of christianity s existence.
It turns out that december 25th was an auspicious day for all the pagans witches and wiccans since time immemorial. In this way the problem of eliminating an already popular holiday would be sidestepped thus making the christianizing of the population easier. December 25th christmas day.
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