According to a Roman almanac, the Christian festival of Christmas was celebrated in Rome by AD 336..( The reason why Christmas came to be celebrated on December 25 remains uncertain, but most probably the reason is that Midnight Dreary Edgar Allan Poe shirt early Christians wished the date to coincide with the pagan Roman festival marking the “birthday of the unconquered sun” ) (natalis solis invicti); this festival celebrated the winter solstice, when the days again begin to lengthen and the sun begins to climb higher in the sky. The traditional customs connected with Christmas have accordingly developed from several sources as a result of the coincidence of the celebration of the birth of Christ with the pagan agricultural and solar observances at midwinter.
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