Codex Bezw) wrongly give the Divine words as su ei o uios mou o agapetos, ego semeron gegenneka se (Thou art my beloved Son, this day have I begotten thee) in lieu of en soi eudokesa (in thee I am well pleased), read in Luke, iii, 22. At any rate this double commemoration became popular, partly because the apparition to the shepherds was considered as one manifestation of Christ’s glory, and was added to the greater, manifestations celebrated on January 6 partly because at the baptism-manifestation many codices (e.g. 219) that there is no month in the year to which respectable authorities have not assigned Christ’s birth.Ĭlement, however, also tells us that the Basilidians celebrated the Epiphany (q.v.), and with it, probably, the Nativity, on 15 or 11 Tybi (10 or January 6). But Lupi has shown (Zaccaria, Dissertazioni ecc. With Clement’s evidence may be mentioned the “De pascha computus”, written in 243 and falsely ascribed to Cyprian (P.L., IV, 963 sqq.), which places Christ’s birth on March 28, because on that day the material sun was created. Others reached the date of 24 or 25 Pharmuthi (19 or April 20). 200 (Strom., I, xxi in P.G., VIII, 888), says that certain Egyptian theologians “over curiously” assign, not the year alone, but the day of Christ’s birth, placing it on 25 Pachon (May 20) in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus. The first evidence of the feast is from Egypt. viii in Migne, P.G., XII, 495) that in the Scriptures sinners alone, not saints, celebrate their birthday Arnobius (VII, 32 in P.L., V, 1264) can still ridicule the “birthdays” of the gods. Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it from their lists of feasts Origen, glancing perhaps at the discreditable imperial Natalitia, asserts (in Lev. iol, a feast in December).ĮARLY CELEBRATION.-Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. was geol, feast: geola, the name of a month (cf. It is unconnected with any word meaning “wheel”. Weihnachtsfest, from the preceding sacred vigil. is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038, and Cristes-messe, in 1131.
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