Merry "OLD" Christmas

Today is Old Christmas. When I think of this date, I think of how Nannie "Lillie Mae" would always wait till the day after Old Christmas before she took down her Christmas tree. I also am reminded how special the date was between Nannie and Debbie, and how they always exchange a small gift. Old Christmas has many meanings to people all over the world ,here are just a few: Historians agree that Old Christmas arose from a change in calendars. In 1752 the government of Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar to replace the less accurate Julian calendar. To make the change, eleven days were dropped from the month of September 1752 in Britain and all of her colonies. This made Christmas day fall on December the 25th, but many continued to celebrate Christmas on the old date in January. Now days, our primary concern seems to be with Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. But our mountain ancestors, who studied with great attention, every detail of the Bible, the almanac, and the calendar, understood the Twelfth Day very well.
Twelve days after Christmas Day, December 25, twelve days after the birth of Christ, is January 6, the Day of Epiphany. Epiphany is a Greek word that means "appearance". The night preceding January 6 is the Eve of Epiphany. Most Western-Christian faiths believe that it was upon this night over 2000 years ago that the Three Wise Men came to Bethlehem to look upon the infant Jesus. Therefore, the Twelfth Day of Christmas is the commemoration of the day upon which Jesus appeared to the Gentiles, as Christ the Savior. I hope You have a great OLD CHRISTMAS!