Christmas

Christmas is a Christian traditional holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated every year on December 25^th in most Western Christian churches (Protestant and Roman Catholic), and on the civil date of January 7 in Eastern Orthodox churches which have not accepted the Gregorian calendar reform.

Many aspects of the Christian holiday, such as the Christmas Tree, the Yule Log, and the giving of presents, were taken from the earlier pagan holiday of Yule.

Originally, Christmas' date was set to correspond with Greco-Roman festivals. As early as A.D. 354, the Birth of Christ was celebrated on Dec. 25th in Rome. Other cities had other traditional dates.

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