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In Nativity Celebration
While December is now the month in which Christ's birthday is celebrated by Christians all over the world, research and study show that Christ's nativity has been celebrated in January, in March, April, May, September, and October by various peoples
Although few people know it, it whs for the purpose of substituting a Christian festival for pagan ones bf Romans and 'Druids that celebrations of Christmas in December were popularised.
No historian pretends to fix the actual date of Christ’s birth or the date at which Christmas became a general feetviaL
About all that it known is that during the fourth century the feast of the Nativity was observed in all western world churches at different dates.
The confusion resulting from celebrations in seven months of the year caused tfye western church authorities to meet in 640 to set a definite date for the celebration. The eastern churches did not co-operate until the sixth century when December 25 was set as the day to be observed.
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