Names for Christmas
The oldest name for Christmas is "Tiio Feast of Lights"—a reference cither to tho lights in tho heavens when Christ was born or to the fact that Ho was the Light of the world. "The .Festival of the ■ Nativity" is the next oldest name, and it is followed by "The Feast of tho Incarnation." A quaint name,\found in old carols, is "Goddo's.Daye." "The Day of tho Manger"'is another. "Yule" is a name borrowed from a pagan feast held on 22nd December to celebrate tho passing of the shortest day—2lst December. An old Irish namo was "The Glory Day"—a reference, possibly, U> tho song of the- angels—"ln Kxcelsis Gloria." Another fourteenth-century name was "Ye Goode Day." In Bavaria Christmas was called "The Whito Day."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 21
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126Names for Christmas Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 21
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