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
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
Twelve Days of Christmas
…Christmas, or Twelve Days of Christmastide, is the festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity of Jesus. In Western Christianity it begins with Christmas Day (25 December) and includes Saint Stephen's Day (26 December), the Feast of Saint John the Apostle (27 December), Childermas (28 December), New Year's…
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