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  2. 17 Traditional Christmas Symbols (Including Bells, Holly and ...

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    17 Christmas Symbols and Their Meanings 1. Christmas Tree. Alsu Vershinina/Unsplash. The trees we decorate each December with glittering tinsel, bright lights and festive ornaments are ...

  3. Religious symbol - Wikipedia

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    Religious symbol. A collage of artistic representations of various religious symbols; clockwise from top left: Om for Hinduism, Dharmachakra for Buddhism, Jain Prateek Chihna for Jainism, Khanda for Sikhism, Taijitu for Daoism, star and crescent for Islam, cross for Christianity, and Star of David for Judaism.

  4. Christmas - Wikipedia

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    The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ ‎ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...

  5. Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit - Wikipedia

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    Stained glass symbolic representation of the Holy Spirit as a dove, c. 1660. The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are an enumeration of seven spiritual gifts first found in the book of Isaiah, [ 1] and much commented upon by patristic authors. [ 2] They are: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord.

  6. List of religions and spiritual traditions - Wikipedia

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    One modern academic theory of religion, social constructionism, says that religion is a modern concept that suggests all spiritual practice and worship follows a model similar to the Abrahamic religions as an orientation system that helps to interpret reality and define human beings, [6] and thus believes that religion, as a concept, has been ...

  7. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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    The names of the days of the week in North Germanic languages were not calqued from Latin directly, but taken from the West Germanic names. Sunday: Old English Sunnandæg (pronounced [ˈsunnɑndæj]), meaning "sun's day". This is a translation of the Latin phrase diēs Sōlis.

  8. Christmastide - Wikipedia

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    In the Christmas season, it is very common for television stations to air feature films relating to Christmas and Christianity in general, such as The Greatest Story Ever Told and Scrooge. [ 45 ] On Saint Stephen's Day , the second day of Christmastide, [ 46 ] people traditionally have their horses blessed, [ 47 ] and on the Feast of Saint John ...

  9. List of Christmas carols - Wikipedia

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    Many traditional Christmas carols focus on the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus, while others celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas that range from 25 December to 5 January or Christmastide which ranges from 24 December to 5 January. As a result, many Christmas Carols can be related to St Stephen's Day (26 December), St John's Day ...