The Child With a Mysterious Birthday
From out of the most holy of the celestial abodes emerged a being whose glory radiated with a mystic flamboyancy.
An air of authority became Him as He lowered His gaze to perceive of the doomed humanity below and was overcome with immeasurable pity at what He saw.
He pondered at length on the perilous quest He was about to take. His destination was to be the ill-fated blue planet. The objective of this strange oddesy – salvation of a human race on the verge of extinction.
In a miraculous manifestation of divine power, He descended down into the womb of a virgin damsel. 9 months later, on an auspicious day still unknown, the Prince of Peace was born in a little-known town called Bethlehem.
While the life and times of this great man have been reasonably documented, His actual birth date has remained a topic of intense speculation dating as way back as the early 3rd century. Clement of Alexandria (150-215), an Athenian theologian claimed though that Jesus Christ may have been born around the 3rd Century on May 20.
At about the same period Christmas, a name derived from the old English word ‘Cristes Maesse’ meaning the ‘Birth of Christ’, began being celebrated long before the advent of Christianity on varied days of the year.
Perhaps the earliest recorded mention of Christmas being commemorated on December 25 was in the Philocalian Calendar named after Furius Dionysius Philocalus, the artist who illuminated part of the document in which the calendar was found. History has it that the celebration of Christmas on this same date had been a common Roman practice by 336 AD.
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