THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTMAS AND THE DATE OF CHRIST’S …

Solstice, and that on the same day our Saviour was born, it grew familiar, it seems, and so was delivered down to those Fathers, that the birth-day was on the very Winter-solstice, which they so often inculcate.2 So stood the debate concerning Christmas in the seventeenth century; today it has taken different shape entirely. II. ................
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