Christmas Around the World
Feliz Navidad is Merry Christmas in this language
Spanish
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight
Jingle Bells
Christmas celebrates his birth
Jesus
Christmas is celebrated on
December 25th
Other names for Yule
Yuletide, Yule Time, Yule Season
Australia has Christmas during this season
Summer
In beauty green will always grow, Through summer sun and winter snow
Oh Christmas Tree
Less important
The practice of giving gifts to family members became well established during this time period
18th century
Yule-tide period lasts about this long
Somewhere around two months, falling along the end of the modern calendar year between what is now mid-November and early January
This is what the Japanese eat to celebrate Christmas
KFC
No more let sins and sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the ground
Joy to the World
Roman Catholic churches celebrated Christmas mass during this time
Midnight
The practice of sending Christmas cards began in this time and place
19th Century England
Explain Yule
An indigenous winter festival celebrated by the Germanic peoples. It has pagan roots
This is a traditional German Christmas food
Stollen
I won't make a list and send it
To the North Pole for Saint Nick
All I want for Christmas is You
What did the Special Services for the church consist of
Christmas carols intertwined with Scripture readings narrating salvation history from the Fall in the Garden of Eden to the coming of Christ
Since when has Christmas also been a secular family holiday, observed by Christians and non-Christians alike
Early 20th Century
The Saga of Hákon the Good credits credits who with the Christianization of Norway as well as rescheduling Yule to coincide with Christian celebrations held at the time
King Haakon I of Norway
Misa de gallo/missa do galo/missa del gall is:
A name for the Catholic Mass celebrated around midnight of Christmas Eve and sometimes in the days immediately preceding Christmas
Take a look in the five and ten glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow
It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas
Jesus' birth was first identified as December 25th by who and when
Sextus Julius Africanus in 221
Fir trees decorated with apples were first known in Strasbourg in 1605. Who recorded the first usage of candles on the tree and when.
a Silesian duchess in 1611
Yule is the modern word of what Old English Words
ġēol or ġēohol and ġēola or ġēoli