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Christmas (Latin: Nativities, "birth")? is one of the most important holidays of Christianity, along with Easter and Pentecost. This feast, which commemorates the birth of Jesus inBethlehem, is celebrated on December 25 in the Catholic Church, in the Anglican Church, some Protestant communities and the Romanian Orthodox Church. Instead, it is celebrated on January 7 in other Orthodoxchurches, who did not accept the reforms made to the Julian calendar to move to the Gregorian calendar called, a name derived from its reformer Pope Gregory XIII.
English speakers use the termChristmas, meaning 'Mass (mass) of Christ'. In some Germanic languages, such as German, the festival is called Weihnachten, meaning 'blessed night'. The Christmas holidays are proposed, as the namesuggests, celebrate the Nativity (ie birth) of Jesus of Nazareth.
There are several theories about how they came to celebrate Christmas on December 25, arising from various modes of inquiry, according tosome known data, on what date Jesus would have been born.
Afterthought
.Christmas is not included in the list of Christian festivals of Irenaeus and Tertullian in the list on the same topic, whichare the oldest lists known. The earliest evidence of concern for the date of Christmas is located in Alexandria, close to the year 200 AD, when Clement of Alexandria states that certain Egyptiantheologians "curious" assigned not only the year but also the actual day of Christ's birth as 25 pashons Coptic (20 May) in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus. From 221, the work Chronographiai, SextusJulius Africanus popularized on December 25 as the date of Jesus' birth. For the time of the Council of Nicaea in 325, the Church of Alexandria had already set the Dies nativitatis et epifaníae.
. Somemaintain that December 25 was adopted only in the fourth century as a Christian holiday after the Roman emperor Constantine the Great converted to Christianity is to encourage a common religious...
Christmas (Latin: Nativities, "birth")? is one of the most important holidays of Christianity, along with Easter and Pentecost. This feast, which commemorates the birth of Jesus inBethlehem, is celebrated on December 25 in the Catholic Church, in the Anglican Church, some Protestant communities and the Romanian Orthodox Church. Instead, it is celebrated on January 7 in other Orthodoxchurches, who did not accept the reforms made to the Julian calendar to move to the Gregorian calendar called, a name derived from its reformer Pope Gregory XIII.
English speakers use the termChristmas, meaning 'Mass (mass) of Christ'. In some Germanic languages, such as German, the festival is called Weihnachten, meaning 'blessed night'. The Christmas holidays are proposed, as the namesuggests, celebrate the Nativity (ie birth) of Jesus of Nazareth.
There are several theories about how they came to celebrate Christmas on December 25, arising from various modes of inquiry, according tosome known data, on what date Jesus would have been born.
Afterthought
.Christmas is not included in the list of Christian festivals of Irenaeus and Tertullian in the list on the same topic, whichare the oldest lists known. The earliest evidence of concern for the date of Christmas is located in Alexandria, close to the year 200 AD, when Clement of Alexandria states that certain Egyptiantheologians "curious" assigned not only the year but also the actual day of Christ's birth as 25 pashons Coptic (20 May) in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus. From 221, the work Chronographiai, SextusJulius Africanus popularized on December 25 as the date of Jesus' birth. For the time of the Council of Nicaea in 325, the Church of Alexandria had already set the Dies nativitatis et epifaníae.
. Somemaintain that December 25 was adopted only in the fourth century as a Christian holiday after the Roman emperor Constantine the Great converted to Christianity is to encourage a common religious...
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