The tradition of Christians celebrating Christmas in December came right after Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, around 312 A.D. The first recorded celebration of Christian ...

The tradition of Christians celebrating Christmas in December came several centuries after Jesus's death, right after Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in 312 A.D. The first ...

Whatever the case may be, Christmas has been part of the liturgical calendar since the time of Emperor Constantine, says White Nelson, and it may even have been celebrated before it was officially ...

Constantine confronted the spirit ... They might call it a Christmas party, but mortals still gathered in defiance of those who would regulate happiness. And while they might not remember his ...

A fresh-cut pine Christmas tree, decorated with ornaments ... One such theory is that in the 4th century, after the Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and legalized the religion ...

Imagine a board meeting so momentous that its minutes would be remembered a millennium later. That meeting took place ...

Christmas Day always falls on Dec. 25 ... more integrated into the Roman Empire — particularly after Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan in 313 A.D. — that the date became widely observed.

(See "Christmas in July—Inside a Santa Summer ... Nicholas defied these edicts and spent years in prison before the Roman emperor Constantine ended Christian persecution in 313 with the Edict ...

It has been said that early Christians chose the date of Saturnalia on which to celebrate Christmas in order to avoid attention and thus escape persecution. When the Roman emperor Constantine ...