Christmas
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Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A liturgic
Nativity scene depicted using Christmas lights
Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stomer, 1632
Nativity of Christ, medieval illustration from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg, 12th century
The Nativity, from a 14th-century missal, a liturgical book containing texts and music necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year
Christmas Eve
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Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas Eve is widely recognized as a full or partial holiday in anticipation of Ch
Christmas
…Mithraism in comparison with other belief systems#December 25 Nochebuena – Evening or day before Christmas Day Christmas collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History…
Christmas Eve, an 1878 painting by J. Hoover & Son
Midnight Mass is held in many churches toward the end of Christmas Eve, often with dim lighting and traditional decorative accents such as greenery.
Advent wreath, lighting the candle
Typical Neapolitan nativity scene, or presepe or presepio, in Rome.