Merry Christmas......

Christmas (Latin: Nativitas, "birth")? is one of the most important Christian festivals, along with Easter and Pentecost, which celebrates the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. This feast is celebrated on December 25 by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, some other Protestant churches and the Romanian Orthodox Church, and on January 7 in other Orthodox Churches, and who did not accept the reforms made to the Julian calendar, to pass to our current calendar, called the Gregorian, the name of reformer, Pope Gregory XIII.Anglophones use the term Christmas, which means' mass (mass) of Christ. " In some Germanic languages such as German, the party called Weihnachten, meaning 'Night of Blessing'. The Christmas festivities are proposed, as its name suggests, celebrate the nativity (ie birth) of Jesus of Nazareth.Although some historians historic celebration of Christmas should be in spring (April-May), and others, following the story of Luke 2:8, indicating that night of the birth of Jesus, the shepherds tending flocks to outdoors and the sky was full of stars, it is unlikely that this event had happened in the winter (northern hemisphere). The Christian Church held on 25 December at the conventional, as in the spring or fall, the Church celebrates Easter.