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The point is often made that, if we can establish December 25 as the day for celebrating Christ birth, why can’t we set a date for Easter, the commemoration of His Resurrection? In some years, the clamour to have a fixed date becomes louder, because Easter...
By the early nineteenth century, Christmas was no longer a festive event in the lives of many people. In Britain, it had still not recovered from its banning by the Puritans, an edict long since revoked but still lingering in it’s somber effects. Christmas...
No festival in the calendar has become more commercialized that February 14th, St Valentine’s Day , and many customs associated with it have disappeared. For example, it was once almost obligatory for lovers to fashion their own Valentine cards and to...
It is the custom that has spread from Europe to many parts of the world. The clock ticks away the seconds of the dying year and suddenly, on the last stroke of midnight, the waiting crowds let out a cacophony of sounds. Voices shout, bells ring, car horns...
