When is Merry Christmas and Celebrations

Birth stories of Matthew and Luke are prominent in the gospel, and early Christian writers have suggested different dates for the anniversary. The first Christmas celebration was in 336 in Rome. Christmas played a role in the fourth century Arian controversy. In the early Middle Ages, it was shadowed by Epiphany. On Christmas Day, Charlemagne received prominence on the feast after the crown of the Emperor crowned on 800th day.

Today, most Christians celebrate December 25 in the Gregorian calendar, which has been adopted almost universally in the citizens' calendar used in countries around the world. However, some Eastern Christian churches celebrate Christmas on December 25 of the old Julian calendar, which currently matches the Gregorian calendar from January 7, one day after celebrating the Western Christian Church Epiphany.

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There is no disagreement on the date of Christmas, but which calendar should be used to determine the day of December 25. In the Council of Tours 567, the Church, with the desire to be universal, was declared "an integrated celebration cycle between twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany", thus giving importance to both Western and Eastern dates of Christmas.

By combining it with alcoholism and other ill-treatment, Puritans banned Christmas in the 17th century. It was restored in 1660 as a legal holiday but it was disputed. In the beginning of the 19th century, the Oxford movement in the Anglican Church "increased the development of more and more symbolic forms of worship in the form of God, the creation of neo-Gothic churches, and the revival of christmas retention and the growing centrality.

Festival "as well as" special services and concert programs "besides" special donations for the poor ". Charles Dickens and other writers helped to "change the consciousness of Christmas and the way it was celebrated" in the resurrection of the holiday, because they emphasized family, religion, gifts, and social reconciliation, as opposed to historical revelation, some places.

Introduction to the feast


As Christmas was known for early Christian writers, it should have been introduced from the postal period. Irenaeus mentioned in his list of festivals that even the exact date of birth was December 25. Tertullian is one of the first Christians who confirms the date of the death of Christ as a correlation with the date of his birth.

The first known Christmas festival has been recorded in the first century document called Apostolic Constitution. It is believed that this manuscript, written by Clement Romanus of 70 AD, is believed to be celebrated as soon as possible.

In Eastern Christianity, January 6 was celebrated in connection with Epiphany on January 6, although the emphasis of the baptism of Jesus was emphasized. After the death of supportive Ariane emperor Valais in the Battle of Adrianopal in 378, Christmas was promoted in the Christian East as part of the reincarnation of Nicin Christianity. 

The ban was introduced in Constantinople in 379, finally by John Chrysostom in Antioch in the fourth century, perhaps in 388, and only in the following century in Alexandria The feast disappeared after Gregory of Nazianzas resigned as bishop in 381, although it was reproduced by John Chrysostom in about 400. Even in the West, on January 6, the celebration of Jesus' motherhood continued till 380.

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