Pierre Smolarek wrote:
Edward Luna wrote:
True... Christ was most likely born in the spring... The Christians chose to
celebrate the birth in late December so their celebration would coincide with
the pagan festival of the winter solstice, when the Sun reaches it's lowest
point in the southern sky.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't it Emperor Constantine who set the
date to Winter solstice so that it would therefore be better accepted by
his people as it coincide with the pagan calibrations. But his desire to
follow Christianity was initially a farce as he feared some sort of
uprising as it was the current 'in' thing and he didn't want a revolt etc ?
P.
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Constanatine won a battle where he was outnumbered when he claimed to
see a cross in the sky and heard the words "by this sign you will
conquer" he had all his troops but a cross on their shields and won
the battle. It wasn't an "in" thing to be Christian until after he
declared it the state religion.
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