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Written by William Danze
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12/25/2005 |
This post is dedicated to my homey... [We will call him SB in order to avoid any possible law suits.] SB for the "God Boy/Baby Jesus" comment. SB is a native Spanish speaker, and he also happens to be one of the top Sun consultants in Panama, on December 23 he decided to send out a mass email wishing friends and family a Merry Christmas, both in Spanish and English. It went like this:
Apreciados amigos:
Les deseo una muy feliz navidad, que la llegada del ni
From Rome, the Christ's Nativity celebration spread to other Christian churches to the west and east, and soon most Christians were celebrating Christ's birth on December 25. To the Roman celebration was later added other winter-solstice rituals observed by various pagan groups, such as the lighting of the Yule log and decorations with evergreens by Germanic tribes. The word Christmas entered the English language originally as Christes maesse, meaning "Christ's mass" or "festival of Christ" in Old English. A popular medieval feast was that of St. Nicholas of Myra, a saint said to visit children with gifts and admonitions just before Christmas. This story evolved into the modern practice of leaving gifts for children said to be brought by "Santa Claus," a derivative of the Dutch name for St. Nicholas--Sinterklaas.
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