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Steven Hijmans of the University of Alberta wrote: "It is cosmic symbolism ... which inspired the Church leadership in Rome to elect the southern solstice, December 25, as the birthday of Christ, and the northern solstice as that of John the Baptist, supplemented by the equinoxes as their respective dates of conception". [58] The Christian treatise De solstitia et aequinoctia conceptionis et nativitatis Domini nostri Iesu Christi et Iohannis Baptistae ('On the solstice and equinox conception and birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ and John the Baptist'), [59] from the second half of the fourth century, [60] dates John's birth to the summer solstice and Jesus's birth to the winter solstice. [42] [61] In America, interest in Christmas had been revived in the 1820s by several short stories by Washington Irving which appear in his The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. and "Old Christmas". Irving's stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, Birmingham, England, that had largely been abandoned, [144] and he used the tract Vindication of Christmas (1652) of Old English Christmas traditions, that he had transcribed into his journal as a format for his stories. [106] A Norwegian Christmas, 1846 painting by Adolph Tidemand Sandys, William (1852). Christmastide: its history, festivities and carols. London: John Russell Smith. pp.119–120. Main article: Economics of Christmas Christmas decorations at the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris, France. The Christmas season is the busiest trading period for retailers. Christmas market in Jena, Germany Holidays at the Museums: Carnegie Museum of Natural History". Carnegiemnh.org. November 26, 2013. Archived from the original on December 27, 2013 . Retrieved December 25, 2013.

Carol King (December 24, 2012). "A Christmas Living Nativity Scene in Sicily". Italy Magazine. Archived from the original on December 26, 2013 . Retrieved December 25, 2013. Christmastide, Christmas Eve, Advent, Annunciation, Epiphany, Baptism of the Lord, Nativity Fast, Nativity of Christ, Old Christmas, Yule, St. Stephen's Day, Boxing Day a b c Talley, Thomas J. (1991). The Origins of the Liturgical Year. Liturgical Press. pp.88–91. ISBN 978-0-8146-6075-1 . Retrieved December 27, 2016.The Legends and Traditions of Holiday Plants". www.ipm.iastate.edu. Archived from the original on January 22, 2016 . Retrieved February 17, 2016.

Worship and Music Planning Calendar". The United Methodist Church. 2018 . Retrieved December 9, 2018.Socias, James (June 24, 2020). Handbook of Prayers. Midwest Theological Forum. ISBN 978-1-936045-54-9. Christmas and its cycle". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.3 (2nded.). Catholic University of America Press. 2002. pp.550–557. Roll, p.89: "Duchesne adds ... a conjecture which he does not support by direct reference to any patristic author or text: that Christ must have been thought to have lived a whole number of years, since symbolic number systems do not permit the imperfection of fractions ... But Duchesne was forced to admit that: this explanation would be the more readily received if we could find it fully stated in some author. Unfortunately we know of no text containing it."