Hi Joao et al !
Orthodox Christians - who number more than 250 million globally- celebrate
Christmas on January 6.
They also celebrate Easter a week later . Most of them live in Eastern Europe .
For other Catholics- January 6 is the feast of the Epiphany -also the feast
of the Three Kings which
is celebrated on a large scale in Spanish-speaking countries. .It
traditionally signals the
removal of the Christmas decorations.
As for the early Christmas greetings, I suppose given the fact that most of
us are spread all over
the world, I do not see a problem; After all, don't we send our Christmas cards
way ahead of time.,
and in some cases - ostensibly due to heavy postal traffic- it arrives after
Christmas
Greetings..
Tony Barros.
Union, New Jersey
U . S . A .
