The Origin of Christmas Customs

*This article was originally published in the December 1964 issue. The Church of our Lord Jesus Christ rejoices that her Head and Redeemer was born as a babe in Bethlehem almost two thousand years ago.  On December 25?  In the year 1 A.D.?  It seems that neither the month nor the year is correct.  The few historical facts recorded in the gospels gave scholars little to go on.  In the sixth century, a learned monk designated the year 754 after the founding of Rome as the year of Christ’s birth...