Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — First Celebration of Christmas. [ARTICLE]

First Celebration of Christmas.

Christmas was first celebrated in ths year 98, but it was forty years later before it was officially adopted as a Christian festival; nor was it until about the Fifth century that the day of its celebration because permanently fixed on the 25th of December. Up to that time It had been irregularly observed at various times of the year—in December, in April and in May, but most frequently in January.—Ladies’ Home Journal.