Christmas Hanger for Towels

Christmas Hanger for Towels

Christmas also colloquially called "Passover", February 1 is one of the most important festivals of Christianity, along with Easter and Pentecost. This feast, which commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, is celebrated on 25 December in the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, some Protestant communities and in most of the Orthodox Churches. Instead, it is celebrated on January 7 in other Orthodox Churches and the Russian Orthodox Church or the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, who did not accept the reform made to the Julian calendar to switch to calendar known as Gregorian, a name derived from his reformer, Pope Gregory XIII. December 25 is a holiday in many countries celebrated by millions of people around the world and also by a large number of non cristianos.

English speakers use the term Christmas, whose meaning is' mass (mass) of Christ. In some Germanic languages such as German, the party called Weihnachten, that means `night of blessing '. Christmas parties are proposed, as its name suggests, celebrate the Nativity (ie birth) of Jesus of Nazareth.

There are several theories about how they came to celebrate Christmas on December 25, which arise from different ways of investigating, according to some known data, on which date Jesus would be born.

The origins vary according to the festival. Although the exact date of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth is not registered in either the Old Testament or the New Testament (Bible), on December 25 it has been significant in the towns of antiquity that celebrated during the winter solstice in the hemisphere north (from December 21). The adoption at that time was done centuries later, beginning with the testimony of Sextus Julius Africanus in 221 about the date of birth in Judea and the liturgical calendar of 354 Philocalian after común.