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History of christmas history channel. History reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. Christmas is a religious holiday celebrating the birth of jesus as well as a cultural and commercial event. Most christians today probably can t imagine christmas on any other day than december 25 but it wasn t always that way. In fact for the first three centuries of christianity s existence.
Learn why we kiss under the mistletoe the commercial origins of rudolph the red nosed reindeer whether jesus was really born on christmas day and more. Christmas christian festival celebrating the birth of jesus the english term christmas mass on christ s day is of fairly recent origin. The celebration of christmas as we know it today stems from the traditions of several different cultures. Learn about the history of christmas santa claus and holiday traditions worldwide.
Christmas history facts and trivia. The earlier term yule may have derived from the germanic jōl or the anglo saxon geōl which referred to the feast of the winter solstice the corresponding terms in other languages navidad in spanish natale in italian noël in french all.