For some Americans, Christmas is a 365 days-a-year obsession ... they commonly settled on December 25 as his birthday during the 4th century. “Scholars differ about why exactly this is, but ...

Christmas is still in full-swing for the 12 ... empire and Pope Julius I declared the 25th as the holiday date in the 4th century AD. The largest number of Orthodox Christians live in eastern ...

But the specific tradition of ‘Christmas hymns’, honoring the birth of Jesus, are typically traced to 4th-century Rome,” continues Hayes, an international Catholic evangelist who hosts ...

(KSNW) — Christmas carols are ... started appearing around the 4th century ACE. Some of those early hymns are still used today in the Greek Orthodox and Catholic Church. While they certainly ...

The date, chosen by the Roman Catholic Church ... Santa Claus, or Father Christmas, has his roots in Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century Christian bishop known for his generosity.