What's the date of Christmas on 20 18? What holiday is Christmas?

In recent years, many cities in China have also held Christmas revelry. For China people, Christmas just provides a time for shopping or traveling abroad. There are also many young couples who will spend this holiday sweetly as a romantic holiday. So what holiday is Christmas? This issue of the old yellow calendar will explain it to you.

Christmas in 20 18 is on Tuesday, February 25th, 20 18.

Christmas is one of the most important festivals for westerners (just like the Spring Festival in China). Christmas is a religious festival, because it is celebrated as a birthday, so it is named "Christmas". Most Catholic churches will hold midnight mass on Christmas Eve on the 24th, that is, in the early morning of February 25th, 65438+ year, while some Christian churches will hold a good news ceremony and then celebrate Christmas on February 25th, 65438+ year. Another branch of Christian Zheng Dong's Christmas celebration is the annual1October 7th.

At the beginning of the church, there was no Christmas, only one hundred years after Ye ascended to heaven. It is said that the first Christmas was held in A.D. 138 at the initiative of Lord St Clemens of Rome. The first Christmas in the history of the church was in 336 AD. Because the Bible does not clearly record the time when Jesus was born, the date of Christmas varies from place to place. It was not until 440 AD that the Holy See designated 65438+February 25th as Christmas. In A.D. 1607, church leaders from all over the world gathered in Bethlehem to further confirm this point. Since then, most Christians in the world have regarded 65438+February 25th as Christmas.

Christmas is also a public holiday in the western world and many other regions, such as Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore in Asia. In the era of Constantine (AD 3 13), the Roman church gradually got used to celebrating the birth of the Lord on1February 25th.

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