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A great Christmas stocking-filler! An entertaining and informative little book to remind us all what lies behind the annual celebration of Christmas.
Since about 400 AD, Christians have celebrated the birth of Jesus. 'Christ' means 'Messiah' or 'Anointed One' and 'Mass' is a religious festival. This elegant little book tells us about the religious background, the pagan precursors to the great festival and explores how Christmas is celebrated around the world today.
How do you say Happy Christmas in Bulgarian? What does a Frenchman eat for his Christmas dinner? Who brings presents to a Syrian child (answer: a camel!) and why do some countries celebrate Christmas on 24th December or 7th January? Which is 'correct'?
Publisher Cameron Brown informs and entertains with historical fact and amusing and little-known trivia. This book will entertain and inform and make a perfect Christmas gift for adults or children.
A few fun facts from the book:
Epiphany, 6th January, is the traditional end of the Christmas holiday and is the date on which we take down the tree and decorations. To do so earlier is thought to bring bad luck for the rest of the year: From the middle ages until the mid-nineteenth century, Twelfth Night was more popular than Christmas day, and even today some countries celebrate Epiphany as the most important day of the Christmas season.
In England, Christmas trees became popular after Queen Victoria's husband Albert, who came from Germany, made a tree part of the celebrations at Windsor Castle. In the United States, the earliest known mention of a Christmas tree is in the diary of a German who settled in Pennsylvania.
The modern Christmas custom of displaying a wreath on the front door of one's house, is borrowed from ancient Rome's New Year's celebrations. Romans wished each other good health by exchanging branches of evergreens.
Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.
A great Christmas stocking-filler! An entertaining and informative little book to remind us all what lies behind the annual celebration of Christmas.
Since about 400 AD, Christians have celebrated the birth of Jesus. 'Christ' means 'Messiah' or 'Anointed One' and 'Mass' is a religious festival. This elegant little book tells us about the religious background, the pagan precursors to the great festival and explores how Christmas is celebrated around the world today.
How do you say Happy Christmas in Bulgarian? What does a Frenchman eat for his Christmas dinner? Who brings presents to a Syrian child (answer: a camel!) and why do some countries celebrate Christmas on 24th December or 7th January? Which is 'correct'?
Publisher Cameron Brown informs and entertains with historical fact and amusing and little-known trivia. This book will entertain and inform and make a perfect Christmas gift for adults or children.
A few fun facts from the book:
Epiphany, 6th January, is the traditional end of the Christmas holiday and is the date on which we take down the tree and decorations. To do so earlier is thought to bring bad luck for the rest of the year: From the middle ages until the mid-nineteenth century, Twelfth Night was more popular than Christmas day, and even today some countries celebrate Epiphany as the most important day of the Christmas season.
In England, Christmas trees became popular after Queen Victoria's husband Albert, who came from Germany, made a tree part of the celebrations at Windsor Castle. In the United States, the earliest known mention of a Christmas tree is in the diary of a German who settled in Pennsylvania.
The modern Christmas custom of displaying a wreath on the front door of one's house, is borrowed from ancient Rome's New Year's celebrations. Romans wished each other good health by exchanging branches of evergreens.
Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.
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