Abraham Ecchelensis (Labbe, II, 402) quotes the Constitutions of the Alexandrian Church for a dies Nativitatis et Epiphaniæ in Nicæan times Epiphanius (Hær., li, ed. Codex Bezæ) wrongly give the Divine words as sou ei ho houios mou ho agapetos, ego semeron gegenneka se (Thou art my beloved Son, this day have I begotten thee) in lieu of en soi eudokesa (in thee I am well pleased), read in Luke 3:22. At any rate this double commemoration became popular, partly because the apparition to the shepherds was considered as one manifestation of Christ's glory, and was added to the greater manifestations celebrated on 6 January partly because at the baptism-manifestation many codices (e.g.
Clement, however, also tells us that the Basilidians celebrated the Epiphany, and with it, probably, the Nativity, on 15 or 11 Tybi (10 or 6 January). 219) that there is no month in the year to which respectable authorities have not assigned Christ's birth. But Lupi has shown (Zaccaria, Dissertazioni ecc. With Clement's evidence may be mentioned the "De paschæ computus", written in 243 and falsely ascribed to Cyprian (P.L., IV, 963 sqq.), which places Christ's birth on 28 March, because on that day the material sun was created. Others reached the date of 24 or 25 Pharmuthi (19 or 20 April). 200, Clement of Alexandria ( Stromata I.21) says that certain Egyptian theologians "over curiously" assign, not the year alone, but the day of Christ's birth, placing it on 25 Pachon (20 May) in the twenty-eighth year of Augustus.
The first evidence of the feast is from Egypt. viii in Migne, P.G., XII, 495) that in the Scriptures sinners alone, not saints, celebrate their birthday Arnobius (VII, 32 in P.L., V, 1264) can still ridicule the "birthdays" of the gods. Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it from their lists of feasts Origen, glancing perhaps at the discreditable imperial Natalitia, asserts (in Lev. Early celebrationĬhristmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. The name in Anglo-Saxon was geol, feast: geola, the name of a month (cf. It is unconnected with any word meaning "wheel". In Dutch it is Kerstmis, in Latin Dies Natalis, whence comes the French Noël, and Italian Il natale in German Weihnachtsfest, from the preceeding sacred vigil. The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038, and Cristes-messe, in 1131. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.
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