Twelve Days of Christmas
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The Twelve Days of Christmas, or Twelve Days of Christmastide, is the festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity of Jesus. In Western Christianity it begins with Christmas Day and includes Sain
The Adoration of the Magi, Fresco at the Lower Church of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Assisi, Italy
Russian icon of the Theophany
A Watchnight Mass at a Lutheran Christian church on New Year's Eve (2014)
Twelfth Night (The King Drinks) by David Teniers c. 1634–1640
Twelfth Night (holiday)
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Twelfth Night is a Christian festival on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, marking the end of Christmastide and the coming of the Epiphany. Different traditions mark the date of Twelfth
Twelve Days of Christmas
…Day (31 December), New Year's Day or the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (1 January), and the Feast of the Holy Family (date varies). It ends with Twelfth Night or Epiphany Eve (the evening of 5 January). For Christian denominations such as the Evangelical-Lutheran Churches and Anglican Communion, the Twelve…
Mervyn Clitheroe's Twelfth Night party, by "Phiz"
Wassailing apple trees on the Twelfth Night to ensure a good harvest. Photo taken in Maplehurst, West Sussex
A Spanish Roscón de reyes, or Kings' ring. This pastry is just one of the many types baked around the world for celebrations during the Twelve Days of Christmas and Twelfth Night.
Cavalcade of Magi in Madrid