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The sun god's birthday is December 25. Christianity changes on December 25 (birth of Apollo), for the birth of Christ, and from there the birth of Christ is celebrated every December 25. -
On December 25, the Romans celebrated the birth of Mithras, the Iranian god of justice. with time, this fact was changed with a religious narrative, as it does now. -
the roman saturnalia was a festival that represent the winter solstice and they honored the Saturn god, where they give parents to each other, as we do now.
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In the Christian context, December 25 of the year zero was the day Jesus Christ was born, and today his supposed birth is still believed and celebrated. -
Emperor Justinian officially declared Christmas as a feast of the Empire. As a Christian celebration, which spread throughout the world and continues to our day. -
On December 25, 1492, “La Hispaniola” was celebrated in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It's what we can call the first American Christmas celebration -
During the colonization and evangelization in Mexico, the Spanish Catholic tradition called "Epifanía del Señor" or "Fiesta de la Iluminación" began to be celebrated. This tradition was also changed, and now we know it as Kings Day -
In 1526 Fray Pedro de Gante wrote to the King of Spain, Carlos V, about celebrating Christmas with the natives, replacing a winter festival called Huitzilopochtli in commemoration of the birth of the God of War. Now we celebrate Christmas as a religious celebration, as the fruit of evangelization. -
the princess Sofia Troubetzkoy puts the first Christmas tree in the palace of Spain, from there its Christmas representation was created, and tradition reached México. -
Edward Johnson came up with the idea of using small bulbs to decorate trees or houses at Christmas time from the bulbs that were used in old telephone exchanges. Now we use better developed and commercialized Christmas lights with the same objective, to decorate the houses and trees.