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[29] [30] To this day, the "Christian cultures in Western Europe and Latin America extend the season to forty days, ending on the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of Mary on 2 February, a feast also known as Candlemas because of the blessing of candles on this day, inspired by the Song of Simeon, which ...
By 1860, fourteen states including several from New England had adopted Christmas as a legal holiday. [88] In 1875, Louis Prang introduced the Christmas card to Americans. He has been called the "father of the American Christmas card". [89] On June 28, 1870, Christmas was formally declared a United States federal holiday. [90]
Holiday fiend Krampus may have already gained some notoriety in the U.S. thanks to pop-culture portrayals such as the eponymous 2015 cult holiday horror film, but the malevolent half-goat, half ...
The Christmas season [3] or the festive season, [4] also known as the holiday season or the holidays, is an annual period generally spanning from November or December to early January. Incorporating Christmas Day and New Year's Day , the various celebrations during this time create a peak season for the retail sector (Christmas/holiday ...
During the Christmas season, we read about the wise men who sought the newborn King. We too are encouraged to seek Jesus and remember Him throughout our month-long celebration.
The Advent season lasts until the first vespers of Christmas Eve on December 24. Christmastide follows, beginning with First Vespers of Christmas on the evening of December 24 and ending with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord , [ 18 ] on the first Sunday after Epiphany (the latter is on January 6 generally).
In Finland (and many other countries around the globe), St. Lucia Day on December 13 is one of the main events of the holiday season. On this date, the eldest girl in each family sometimes dons a ...
The date is close to the vernal equinox, as Christmas is to the winter solstice; because of this the Annunciation and Christmas were two of the four "quarter days" in medieval and early modern England, which marked the divisions of the fiscal year (the other two were Midsummer Day, or the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, on 24 June, and ...