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the Yuletide season

HERE ARE count- less legends that have prown up around the season of

Christmas. In aly, the legend of La Befana tells of the Three Kings who came to her home, in search

of the Infant Jesus. They invited ~

La Befana to join them on their journey to Bethlehem, but she

refi us for she was too busy . “fancy aoe

he followines.day, the old woman’ set-out to overtake the Three Kings, but she never did, nor did she ever reach Bethlehem.

She would stop wherever ihere was a child, leaving a gift, in hopes that she would find the

Whose birthday is it’?

Around the world, December 25th is known, first and foremost (and probably erroneously), as the birthday of Jesus Christ.

But, what other famous individ- uals were born on this day?

Among he people who share Christmas Day as a birthday are:

* Issac Newton (1642), who dis- covered the force of gravity.

* Clara Barton (1818), the woman who founded the Amer- ican Red Cross

* Maurice Utrillo (1883), the French Painter renowned for his paintings of Paris streels.

* Rebecca West (1892), the English novelist and essayist.

* Humphrey Bogart (1899), the American actor. whose many famous films include The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Afri- can Queen. ,

* Cab Calloway (1907), the well-known jazz musician and bandleader.

* Anwar Sadat (1918), former president of Egypt.

* Rod Serling (1924), the TV script writer most famous for the scries, The Twilight Zone.

As for Christ, most scholars concur that the selection of De- eember 25th as his birthday was an arbitrary one,

It was, in fact, not fixed until the fourth: century when Julius, the Bishop of Rome, investigated the matter and chose that date

from the many upon which vari- ous peoples celebrated Christ's birth.

The timing may have had some- thing to do with the winter sol-

stice, which was in-pagan times.

an occasion for revelry.

In the same way, Christlanity adopted such pagan traditions as mistletoe and holly boughs, to al-

low pagans adopting 1 the Christian,

faith to make an easy '—= besides

comfortable — ~ transition i into ite’ Ts

Christ child.

That is why Italian children await gifts brought by La Befana on January 5th. If they’ve been naughty however, she will leave them lumps of coal instead!

A LEGEND that Christmas originated in Sweden tells of the

But the snow began to fall again, and the monk, heart-broken, died clutching one of the blossoms. Its root was planted in the monastery garden, where it bloomed into a beautiful rose, and the robber was pardoned.

ANoTHER LEGEND tells of

On Christmas Eve, the snow disappeared and theiforest = blatined, as the woman had said.

Chiistmas rose.

According to the story, a monk was tending his garden when a woman appeared, saying that she was the wife of a robber living in the forest.

She told the monk of some beautiful flowers that bloomed in the forest on Christmas Eve. He persuaded her to lead him to the forest in exchange for obtaining a pardon for her husband.

On Christmas Eve, the snow disappeared and the forest bloomed, as the woman had said,

a woodcutter and his wife and children who lived in a hut in the forest. The family was poor but their home was filled with love.

One Christmas Eve, as the fam- ily ate a humble meal, there was a knock at the door.

The woodcutter opened the door to find a small boy, shiver- ing with cold. A blanket was wrapped about him and he was given some of the modest repast,

The night, the boy stayed with the woodcuiter’s family, and the next moring, the woodcuiter

found the boy standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by a dazzling light. It was the Christ Child, He took a stick from the fireplace and thrust it into the ground outside ihe hut. Promising (he woodculler that the stick would become an evergreen tree to bear fruit so that the family need never suffer from hunger

during, winter: the: Christ ome disappeared. “= *s

BEAUTIFUL legend con- cerning the poinsettia comes to us from Mexico.

It seems thal a poor young boy had nothing to offer the Christ Child on Christmas Eve, as was the custom in his village. ;

Thinking that at least he could pray, he knelt outside the church window. Rising to his feet, he discovered a beautiful plant with scarlet leaves right in the spot where he bad knelt, He took the flower and placed it on the altar, The plant became known as “The Flower of the Holy Night”? in Mexico.

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