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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1963
Page
18
Christmas joy fills the season with decorations, pageants, and family traditions. The piece reflects on giving, renewal of ties, and the varied meanings of Noel across languages, tracing Christmas origins from Latin to German and French terms.
The article traces carol origins from medieval mystery plays to St Francis of Assisi and Greccio, notes the Yule tree's German origins via Alfred and Victoria, and links carols to earlier gift-giving rites from Roman Saturnalia and Yule trees. It highlights St Basil, Boniface, and Elizabeth I while detailing evolving gift traditions and the festive carol tradition today.
An early Christmas in New France at a St Charles fort near Quebec saw Jacques Cartier and 110 settlers endure cold hunger and fear of hostile Indians. Despite scurvy, they held Mass in a log cabin, used evergreen decorations, sang carols, and shared a feast from scarce provisions.
The Christmas rose blooms in winter often through snow, tied to a legend of a shepherdess who wept offerings for the Christ Child. Her tears sprouted flowers as she offered them, petals turning pink by the Child’s touch. Botanists place it in the buttercup family, native to Southern Europe and western Asia with dark green leaves and white or pink-tinged blooms.
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