The Christmas story

Winter solstice celebrations

To counter many pagan festivals celebrated in Rome at the end of each year, church leaders believe, Christmas would be more popular if they Solstice held in conjunction with the traditional festivals and entertainment in the winter.

Where people celebrate the Christmas holiday, religious aspect of Christmas is the celebration as the central church services, as evidenced byMidnight Mass and in the many forms of birth or the Christmas story. Although some Christmas celebrations are almost purely secular.

He started in Galilee

The story begins in Nazareth in Galilee 2000 years ago. A carpenter named Joseph was engaged to a young girl named Maria. If an angel appeared

Maria tells her that now carries a child for whom they do not understand how, through her still a virgin. The angel explained thatthe child would be special when he was the Son of God and that he shall be called Jesus, Mary and Joseph then married. Around the time of Mary giving birth, the pair of distant Bethlehem, the birthplace of Joseph had to travel, pay a special tax.

There is no room at the inn

Finding a place to live at that time was difficult because many others have been paid in Bethlehem, their taxes, too. Finally, he offered to host a room for guests to stay in his barn. Here isJesus was born the son of God, then wrapped in strips of cloth. The child in a manger in which, instead of a cot.

Shepherds in a field, in Bethlehem have been overlooked, has seen a very bright star in the sky over Bethlehem. An angel appeared to them to tell the good news that the Son of God was born.

Leaving their flocks, the shepherds went to Bethlehem to take care of the child. Finding the stable, where to place the baby Jesus, were filled with joy. Falling on her knees, sheworshiped him. They spoke with Mary and Joseph, the stars and the angels say, look, that Jesus is the Savior of sinful mankind.

The three "Kings"

Astrologers in the east saw the star (see photo). Sop three of them in the

to find the baby Jesus after the first visit of King Herod in Jerusalem. King Herod, the wise men said that if they found the child should be made, in order to tell him that he could worship the child. But the kingHerod was very concerned that it would be replaced as king on the throne.

Astrologers stars as beacons to Bethlehem where they found Mary

Joseph and baby Jesus, have given very special gifts, expensive and of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The season six astrologers represented as three kings in some holiday called Christmas celebrations in January, the Epiphany, which marks the date on which the baby Jesus. Later that night the three astrologers had aDream in which an angel told them that King Herod wanted to kill the child. They left Bethlehem back in the East but not in Jerusalem, King Herod's website on children. Joseph had to say, a vision soon to astrologers the left, in which an angel appeared to him to take Mary and baby Jesus to Egypt. Herod ordered that the baby Jesus to be killed, but did not know where he was an all-out attempt to kill Jesus, Herod, that all children have died in the region.However, had escaped Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus all.