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According to the legend, an English missionary traveled in modern Germany and over there, he met a group of barbarians who were preparing a sacrifice for a oak tree. To stop this sacrifice, he cutting down the oak tree and a fir tree grew in stead of the oak tree
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In the middle age, the church begin to decorate the fir trees with apples. At that time, their name were not yet Christmas tree but Paradise tree.
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The church add candles at apples to decorate Christmas trees.
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Christmas tree became famous thanks to Queen Victoria, an English queen, who was married to a German. Indeed, during a winter, the German prince decorated a Christmas tree in the castle. The queen was a fashionable person, that's why all people recopied her.