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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. |
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