#constintine

Once, very long ago, before ever the flowers were named which struggled and fluttered below the rain-swept walls, there sat at an upper window a princess and a slave reading a story which even then was old; or, rather, to be entirely prosaic, on the wet afternoon of the Nones of May in the year (as it was computed later) of Our Lord 273, in the city of Colchester, Helena, red-haired, youngest daughter of Cole, Paramount Chief of the Trinovantes, gazed into the rain while her tutor read the Iliad of Homer in a Latin paraphrase.

And there alone lies Hope.

Where Do Christmas Customs And Traditions Really Come From? Was Jesus Really Born On December 25? ~ Repost

“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.” Plutarch

The Christmas tree, the wreath, the mistletoe, the holly, the presents, the feasts and the parties, did they really originate with the birth of Jesus?

No.

Most of today’s Christmas celebrations began as the pagan celebration of Saturnalia revolving around the harvest…