Topic: Celebrating Christmas on December 25 Began As Early As the Second Century AD

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Celebrating Christmas on December 25 Began As Early As the Second Century AD
 

<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Christmas-Day-December-25th.jpg?itok=YBp7Za5M"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Christmas-Day-December-25th.jpg?itok=YBp7Za5M" width="610" height="407" alt="A nativity scene showing the scene of Jesus’ birth, now taken to be December 25th.    Source: itsajoop/Adobe Stock" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>Many people, including Christians, believe the origin of the date of Christmas is related to the pagan feasts to worship the solar god? Sol Invictus, Saturn’s god? Saturnalia, or the Persian solar god adopted by the Romans,? Mithras.</p>
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