The Christmas Tree Is a Tradition Older Than Christmas TC_Africa: Africa
, evergreens have long served as symbols of the perseverance of life during the bleakness of winter, and the promise of the Sun's return.Christmas came much later. The date was not fixed on liturgical calendars until centuries after Jesus' birth, and the English word Christmas - an abbreviation of"Christ's Mass" -While Dec.
. In keeping with old solstice celebrations, the song praises the tree's faithful hardiness during the dark and cold winter.Sixteenth-century German Protestants, eager to remove the iconography and relics of the Roman Catholic Church, gave the Christmas tree a huge boost when they used it to replace Nativity scenes. The religious reformer Martin Luther supposedly adopted the practice
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