Did You Know.....
Christmas didn't become a Federal Holiday in America until
June 26, 1870 - by President Ulysses S. Grant.
Christmas
Celebration's - The earliest Christians believed that celebrating
birthdays
was heathen and unholy, but sometime during the fourth century
these
attitudes changed. Because the bible didn't actually specify the date
when
Jesus was born, Pope Juleps I of the fourth century designated December
25th
as the official date for the feast of Jesus' nativity. This celebration
of Jesus' birth
soon became widespread and touched the hearts of many. The
very first
Christmas carols ever written were composed by the Christians of
this period.