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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1969
Page
11
Chronically it was the merry monarch Charles II whose licentious exploits stained 17th century Europe. The Roundheads had banned the Christmas tree as devilish, but after Cromwell’s death and the royalist return, the festive custom was revived to the delight of the English speaking world.
Dr John Henry Hopkins Jr. wrote We Three Kings in 1859. Little Town of Bethlehem followed in 1868 by Phillip Brooks with music by Lewis H. Redner. Dickens 1843 Christmas Carol is intended to be read, not sung.
The article recalls Saint Nicholas a fourth century bishop in Asia Minor who saved a poor man’s daughters by gifting gold. One tale has gold tossed down a chimney into stockings hung to dry. It also explains traditional mince pies and plum pudding with symbolic meanings of gifts and virtues, noting festive legends behind these customs.
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