The Christmas

The word christmas comes from the latin Nativitas (Birth) and represent one of the most important christian holidays, which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, this feast is celebrated on december 25 by the catholic , the anglican , some other protestant and the romanian orthodox churches, and on january 7 in other orthodox churches, and who did not accept the reforms made to the julian calendar, to spend to our current calendar, called the gregorian, the name of his reformer, the Pope Gregory XIII .

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Tree and Other Christmas Traditions

The Christmas Tree

The Christmas tree, a leafy pine-decorated, the researchers,has its origin in paganism Central Europe, because they worshiped their gods in forests or in certain places where stood a significant tree,San Bonifacio, one of the greatest missionaries of the evangelization of Europe, was dedicated to destroying these milestones pagans and their histories is counted down trees cultic.

However, the tree that recalls the birth of Jesus between the Christianized Germanic peoples, symbolized the tree of Eden, but no longer the forbidden fruit that was the beginning of sin in man but which commemorates the fruit of salvation, hence the character of its ornaments and decorations.

The Crib

The tradition of representing the Lord's birth dates from the thirteenth century Christians. This initiative is due to St. Francis of Assisi who spiritually to take the mystery of the Nativity consider reproducing the place where the Savior was born. There is so put together a stable carrying animals and it was located in different places of the characters, the Virgin, St. Joseph, the shepherds and even animals, and mused on what would be their attitude to the Child-God who man had done to save men.

From this he started the idea of using shapes to build the nativity scene, especially in Italy and then through to the rest of Europe and the whole Christian world. Since it is a habit that remained only between Catholics and Protestants that followed after XVI reformation.

Also, the Cribs, took their characteristics depending on the region, such as Neapolitan crib, where the characters are dressed as peasants in southern Italy, or the fact their figures be true works of art as the size Manger made real in polychrome carved wood by artisans in Oberammergau, Germany, he was bestowed the Pope and that is assembled every year in St. Peter's Basilica.

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Formation of the Christian holiday Christmas As

 

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Christmas is not included in the list of Christian holidays of Irenaeus and Tertullian in the list on the same topic, which are lists oldest known. The earliest evidence of the concern about the timing of Christmas is in Alexandria, near the year 200 AD, when Clement of Alexandria indicates that certain Egyptian theologians "very curious" assign not only the year but the actual day of Christ's birth as 25 Pachon (20 May) in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus. From 221, in the work Chronographiai, Sextus Julius Africanus popularized the December 25 as the date of the birth of Jesus. By the time the Council of Nicaea in 325, the Alexandrian Church had already fixed the Díes nativitatis et epifaníae.

Pope Julius I called 350 the birth of Christ was celebrated on 25 December, which was decreed by Pope Liberius in 354. The first mention of a Christmas feast at that time in Constantinople, dating from 379, under Gregory Nazianzen. The feast was introduced in Antioch about 380. In Jerusalem, Egeria, in the fourth century, witnessed the presentation banquet of forty days after January 6, February 15, which must have been the timing of birth. The December feast reached Egypt in the fifth century