Christmas

Christmas Day is December 25, when the Birth of Jesus in Bethlehem according to the gospels of San is commemorated Kill and San Lucas. After the EASTER is the most important festival of the ecclesiastical year.As the gospels do not mention dates, is not insurance that Jesus to be born that day. In fact, Christmas Day officially was not recognized to the year 345, when by influence of San Juan Crisóstomo and San Gregorio Nacianzeno was proclaimed December 25 as date of the Nativity.In this manner continued the politics of the primitive Church to absorb instead of repressing the existing pagan rites, that since the first times they had celebrated the winter solstice and the arrival of the spring.The narrowly most associated with pagan festival the new one Christmas was the Saturnal Roman, December 19, in honor of Saturn, God of the agriculture, that was celebrated during seven days of boisterous diversions and banquets.At the same time, was celebrated in the north of Europe a festival of similar winter, known like Yule, in which they burned large trunks adorned with branches and tapes in honor of the God to obtain that the Sun shone