Christmas Traditions

Scripture does not record for us the exact date nor the time of the year of Christ’s birth. Nor did the Apostles or the early Church celebrate the birth of Christ. It was the Romish Church, already apostatizing in the early part of the fourth century, A.D., which affixed Christ’s birthday on the twenty-fifth day of December, the exact date of an annual pagan Roman feast, in order to pacify the heathen, and to swell the numbers of the nominal adherents of Christianity. Upright men strove to stem...