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Interesting Christmas Fact # 11 - December 25th

December 25th was not celebrated as the birthday of Christ until the year AD 336.

(Christian leaders set the date to December 25 in an attempt to eclipse a popular pagan holiday in Rome (Saturnalia). For the first three centuries of Christianity, Christmas wasn't even in December—. In fact you wouldn't have found it on any calendar.)

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