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Christmas caroling is almost as old as Christmas itself -- though not in thfe form we know it. An early historian wrote that in the Second Century the bishop of Rome urged his people to sing *in celebration of our Lord.” Christmas hymns go back to the Fifth Century, when most of them were written in Latin. St. Francis of Assisi is regarded as the father of caroling as we know it, according to World Book Encyclopedia. In 1223, St. Francis placed a creche (m i n i a t u r e Nativity scene), in a hermitage in Grecchio, Italy.
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