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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (53543)8/30/1999 2:22:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
No, it is Christmas that is celebrated at the winter solstice, Lather. It replaces that wicked old pagan festival known as the Saturnalia.
See, for example:

Christmas was once a moveable feast celebrated many different times during the year. The choice of December 25 was made by the Pope Julius I in the fourth century AD because this coincided with the pagan rituals of Winter Solstice, or Return of the Sun. The intent was
to replace the pagan celebration with the Christian one.

In 1752, 11 days were dropped from the year when the switch was from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The December 25 date was effectively moved 11 days backwards. Some Christian church sects, called old calendarists, still celebrate Christmas on January 7(previously Dec. 25 of the Julian calendar.) [As do the Russian Orthodox, incidentally. jbe]

Many of the traditions associated with Christmas (giving gifts, lighting a Yule log, singing carols, decorating an evergreen) hark back to older religions.

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