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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1968
Page
9
The article notes Epiphany customs worldwide with focus on children in France and Switzerland who look for a pastry containing a bean coin or figure. The finder is crowned king of the family, commemorating the visit of the Three Women to the Infant Jesus and Christ’s birth.
Historians note Christmas rites in the Middle East with a Jerusalem patriarch leading cavalry to a long Christmas Eve service. After gospel readings, processions to the Grotto of the Nativity were held with plays in churches. In Elizabethan England solemnity faded into revelry as Shakespeare's Twelfth Night likely debuted at Whitehall on January 6, 1601.
The piece explains how early Christians shifted Nativity to December 25 from January 6 to convert sun worshippers. It notes the date’s linked to sun festivals and religious reform around 375 AD and mentions Santa Claus Indiana and the origin of the town’s name.
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