Bibliography
Berrens, Stephan (2004) (in German), Sonnenkult und Kaisertum von den Severern bis zu Constantin I. (193-337 n. Chr.), Geschichte (Franz Steiner Verlag); Historia (Wiesbaden, Germany), F. Steiner, ISBN 9783515085755, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57010712
Hijmans, S (2003), “Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas”, Mouseion Calgary 3.3: 377-398, ISSN 14969343, OCLC 202535001
Hijmans, Steven E (2009) (Thesis/dissertation), Sol : the sun in the art and religions of Rome, ISBN 9036739314, http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/FILES/faculties/arts/2009/s.e.hijmans/vol1/05_c5.pdf
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Sol Invictus
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Sol
Probus and Sol, includes images of coins
Roman-Emperors: Aurelian
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall: Triumph of Aurelian
Gibbon’s references for Aurelian’s Temple of Sol Invictus
Clement A. Miles, Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan (1912): December 25 and the Natalis Invicti
Catholic Encyclopedia (1908): Christmas
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