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Did

The Christmas HOW IT ALL Star Return?

・T_was a clear bright day in Calabria and Tuscany, It was the Christmas season of the year 1220. Peace was on the world and peasants and prelates, alike, were preparing to celebrate and worship.

And then, at noon, three bright stars, so close together that they were almost one star, appeared in the sky.

People stopped

Thoma and gaped. Sometimes in the early dawn or toward evening stars do appear in daylight. But not often at

noon.

Bealdes, this cluster of three starg was quite unlike any con- stollation that anyone had see before. They were enormously bright and they stayed fixed us

The afternoo00 wore on,

That day three men wise were destined to be leaders and holy men of the Church were burn: Thomas Acquinas, Am. brose of Slennn and James of Mevania. The first two were later canonised and the third was beatified.

The Christmos siar had re- returned to mark n great turning point in the history of Chris- Tianity.

Or Indition has it.

The tradition is recorded in a Ife of the saints written in 1889 by Monsigneur Guerin, Cham- berlain to Pope Leo XII.

It is fair to say that historians are sceptical of the tradition,

welded Acquinas Christian theology and Greek philosophy together in a unity which made possible, for the first time, a unilled view of the world.

in

He also proclaimed the hill

which reason

hay teen motive power behind the intel-

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was renowned for his extreme poverty and holiness.

The three of them, taken to- gether, come as close, perhaps, to forming the composite per- Fonality of Christ on any three men in history.

Acqulans with his cnormous Insight and his almost incredible

George Hamilton

BEGAN

E ant vertain refer- enco to Bocomber-23 as Chrisinis Day is dated AD. 154.

Fonio early patriarchs, Including Origen and Clement of Alexandria, thought It s!nfut 10 celebrate Christmas.

December 25 ТУДЯ tho birthday of the uncon- quered sun in; the`religion of Mithras,

whlekt flourished in the Roman Empire.

The Venerable Belle of Jarrow

(A.D. 073-735) wrote:

**Tha anolent peoples of the Angli began tho Year on December 25,...and the very night that is now to holy they called in their language modranecht,, that is mother's night.”

In 1844 Oliver Crom- well's Government forbann by Act of Parliament any

merriment or re!latous ceremonies on Christmas Day. Charles H repealed

the Act. TO-

lectual progress of Western man power to synthesise knowledge Ever since.

into en intelligible whole, presents the search for truth,

Ambrose of Sienna was one of the great peacemakers of ali

time.

He travelled up and down Europe. He quelled major dis- putes between Venlee and Genoa and between Florence and Pisa,

He arranged a settlement be- tween the Emperor Conrad und the Pope.

Ambrose strove to realise the Biblical promise of "pease on earth goodwill toward men."

And James whose ilfe devoted to the poor and the down-trodden and to simple

Alls contemptation,

the vital

third

He reorganised government an masion.

Bohemia.

And he settled more than a

was

role in the Christian

Terhaps, it the Christmas

score of other disputes before Star did not appear in 1220, It they got to the level of hosulity, should have

More than once endeavoured to retire to monastery to devole his life to contemplation, But, each time, some new dispute forced him to resume the active life.

He was chosen Bishop of Sienna but he refused the uffice on the grounds, which startled nll of Europe that he was not worthy of it.

James of Mevanla, on the other hand,

never appeared on the large stage of history. Ka founded a monastic or- der in his home town and

А Canny Christmas

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now

E old English custom of the Christmas tree was

and German A hundred years ago, Albert, Prince Consort, had a tree decorated

Windsor Castle for bis first Christmas In England in

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1840. For Christmas 1845 many English familles expled tho new Royal ausiem.

The best Christmas trees are Norway spruce. Few of them wero Etowa 1m England w the Im- portation of Elm Trees and Conifers (Prohibition) Order, 1933,

were

Christmas trees banned in Russia in 1020;

in Italy in 1935, in Greece in 1937, in Rumunia (be-

Canse

they wero "non- Rumantan")

In 1038, an EX In Germany (for economy)

In 1043. In 1044, Portuguesa newspapers do- manded that this custom" be banned.

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Christmas cards тего flent sold in 1846.

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