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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christmas
In Cyprus, at the end of the fourth century, Epiphanius asserts against the Alogi (Hær., li, 16, 24 in P. G., XLI, 919, 931) that Christ was born on 6 January and baptized on 8 November.
In view of a reaction to certain Jewish rites and feasts, Chrysostom tries to unite Antioch in celebrating Christ's birth on 25 December, part of the community having already kept it on that day for at least ten years.
Kirchengesch., XXVI, 1905, 20-31) that the feast was brought in by Constantine as early as 330-35.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03724b.htm   (4639 words)

  
 Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The city's history extends nearly 2,800 years, during which time it has been the seat of ancient Rome and, later, the Papal States, Kingdom of Italy and Italian Republic (modern Italy).
Rome is also called "la Città Eterna" (the Eternal City), "l'Urbe" (the latin for the City pre-eminently) and "The City of the Seven Hills".
The civilization of ancient Rome originated in the 8th or 9th century BC, when the tribe of the Latini migrated to the Italian peninsula to settle around the River Tiber.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rome   (2423 words)

  
 Xenophanes [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
There is one dealing with the management of a feast, another which denounces the exaggerated importance attached to athletic victories, and several which attack the humanized gods of Homer.
God is one incorporeal eternal being, and, like the universe, spherical in form; that he is of the same nature with the universe, comprehending all things within himself; is intelligent, and pervades all things, but bears no resemblance to human nature either in body or mind.
Nature, he believed, is one and without limit; that what is one is similar in all its parts, else it would be many; that the one infinite, eternal, and homogeneous universe is immutable and incapable of change.
www.iep.utm.edu /x/x-phanes.htm   (765 words)

  
 Judaism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
God is one - Judaism is based on strict unitarian monotheism, the belief in one God, the eternal Creator of the universe and the source of morality.
The idea of God as a duality or trinity is heretical for Jews to hold; it is considered akin to polytheism.
Shavuot or Pentacost or Feast of Weeks celebrates Mose's giving of the Ten Commandments to the Israelites, and marks the transition from the barley harvest to the wheat harvest.
judaism.iqnaut.net   (7047 words)

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