Why is Christmas on December 25th?
December 9, 2015
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8:55Now PlayingWhy is Christmas on December 25th?
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as posted by the channelEveryone assumes that early Church authorities chose December 25th for Christmas to coincide with the already popular Roman holiday of Saturnalia. This may have some basis in reality, but there is another theory: That Christians believed Jesus was conceived and died on the same day (sometime in March or April). When you calculate 9 months forward from that purported day of conception, you get December 25th or January 6th.
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