Christmas Fun Facts
Why Is Christmas Day on December 25?
Although the exact date of Christ's birth is unknown, Christmas Day has been symbolically celebrated on the 25th of December since the 4th century.
The word Christmas comes from "Christ's Mass" We do know that the oldest existing record of a feast to celebrate the birth of Christ is in the Roman almanac called the Chronographer of 354 or the Philocalian Calendar. This ancient almanac noted that a festival commemorating Christ's birth was observed by the church in Rome in the year 336.
Cronographers of the third century were the ones who reckoned December 25, around the winter solstice, as the most likely day of Christ's birth.
In ancient times, Celts divided the year into four sections marked by "quarter days" the days of the two solstices a...