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After Santa’s Come and Gone: 6 Ways to Celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas

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After Santa’s Come and Gone: 6 Ways to Celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas
Historically, each of the 12 days often included feasts, religious observances, and celebrations in various Christian communities.Biba Kayewich
Jeff Minick
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Different times, different customs.

A case in point: From England’s Middle Ages until the reign of the Tudors, Advent meant four weeks of fasting and preparation. With the arrival of Christmas Day came the 12 Days of Christmas, nearly two weeks of revelry and feasts, ending only on Epiphany in January, that day set aside to remember the wise men who stood ‘round a manger in Bethlehem.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.