Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — Why December 25 Is Christmas. [ARTICLE]

Why December 25 Is Christmas.

Before Pope Julian’* time. Christman, which seems to have been first officially instituted a church feast day by a decree of Pope Teleephorns, between 142 A. D. and 164 A. D. f was a movable feast Indeed, it was the most movable of all the Christian festivals. It was usually oelebrated by the Eastern branches of the Christian church in April or May, while in the western part of Europe days in January or other months were observed as Christmas. St Cvril, Bishop of Jerusalem, obtained from t*ope Julius L authority to appoint a commission to determine, if possible, the precise day of Christ’s nativity. From the chronological archives of the Reman censors, establishing the times of occurrence of oertain events of the same period of the Roman Government of Palestine, the theologians of the eastera and western divisions of the Christian church agreed upon Deo. 25 as the date of the birth of Jesos, and thereupon tbia became the officially decreed and generally aooepted Christmas Day.

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