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Christmas Wishes
The festival
of Christmas has a special significance in everyone's life. Though
Christmas is considered to be the primary festival of the Christian
calendar but today it is a part of all religions and is a universal
festival. Christmas celebrates humanity and mankind and conveys
message of love, tolerance and brotherhood. It is celebrated on the
25th December, the date when Jesus Christ was born. The word
Christmas is derived from an early English phrase 'Cristes maesse',
that means 'Mass of Christ'. According to many scholars, the
festival originated in the 4th century as a Christian substitute for
pagan celebrations of the winter solstice many years before the
Christ child was born. 25th December is first mentioned as the birth
date of Jesus Christ in 336 AD in an early Roman calendar.
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