Learn more about the Advent wreath tradition in Germany in our Advent Calendar. Welcome to the first of our 2024 Advent Doors. This year our Advent Calendar is all about different things that ...

Considered a season of light in the dark apex of winter, Advent is symbolized in the church by a candlelit evergreen wreath. In 1838 Johann Wichern, a German Lutheran pastor, began using this ...

The idea of Advent calendars was invented by German Lutherans in the 19th and ... This period also consists of an Advent ...

Advent calendars have become big business in ... This year, Gengenbach is featuring the work of German illustrator Olaf Hajek. The tradition began in the 1990s. Gengenbach was primarily a summer ...

The circular shape of the wreath represents the eternal ... represent the everlasting life found in Christ. Advent calendars were adopted in the 19th century by German Lutherans as a way to ...

With the season of Advent 2023 already underway, many people are using Advent calendars to count down the number of days until Christmas. But what exactly is an Advent calendar? Where did the ...

The Advent wreath originated from a pagan European tradition, which consisted of lighting candles during the winter to ask the sun god to return with his light and warmth. The first missionaries ...

Advent started as a time for remembrance and a sign for Christians to be open and ready for the second coming of Christ and held to traditional items and events like a wreath with candles ...

Traditionally, the Advent wreath with its four candles and sometimes a central fifth, the Christ candle, is lit on Christmas Eve. The candles remind believers of the light Jesus brings into the ...