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 Christmas Day — history, meaning, where it’s celebrated, and its message Introduction (short): Christmas Day, observed on 25 December in most traditions, is the annual festival that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Over centuries it has grown into both a major religious observance for Christians and a widely celebrated cultural holiday with many secular customs.  1. Historical origins — how Christmas began There is no exact date for Jesus’s birth in the Bible. The practice of celebrating his birth on 25 December appears in the historical record in the 4th century CE: Rome had a Christmas observance by 336 and Pope Liberius celebrated mass on 25 December in 352, which helped fix the date in the church calendar. Scholars offer several reasons why late December was chosen — including linking Christian symbolism of the “light” (the birth of Christ) with existing winter festivities and calendrical calculations that placed conception in March so birth falls nine months ...