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und the fires, yelling for the winter to time, Christmas took the place of these people kept some of the old customssuch as burning a Yule log and having feasts and word Yule is still used as a name for the Christmas time went on, new customs crept into was the Christmas tree, which was started in the Germans settled in new lands they brought with them this 16thcentury Germany fir trees were decorated, both indoors and out, with apples, roses, gilded candies, and colored the Middle Ages, a popular religous play depicted the story of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of fir tree hung with apples was used to symbolize the Garden of Eden — the Paradise play ended with the prophecy of a saviour ing, and so was often performed during the Advent is held that Protestant reformer Martin Luther first adorned trees with ing home one December evening, the beauty of the stars shining through the branches of a fir inspired him to recreate the effect by placing candles on the branches of a small fir tree inside his homeThe Christmas Tree was brought to England by Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert from his native famous Illustrated News etching in 1848, featuring the Royal Family of Victoria, Albert and their children gathered around a Christmas tree in Windsor Castle, popularized the tree throughout Victorian to America by the Pennsylvania Germans, in the late 19th but not least is Saint long time ago, a bishop named Nicholas lived in what is now the country of one knows much about are stories that he often helped children in years after his death, Nicholas was made a time, he became the patron saint of origin of Santa Claus begins in the 4th century with Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, an area in present day all accounts was a generous man, particularly devoted to his death around 340 was buried in Myra, but in 1087 Italian sailors purportedly stole his remains and removed them to Bari, Italy, greatly increasing ’ popularity throughout kindness and reputation for generosity gave rise to claims he that he could perform miracles and devotion to him became the patron saint of Russia, where he was known by his red cape, flowing white beard, and bishop’s Greece, he is the patron saint of sailors, in France he was the patron of lawyers, and in Belgium the patron of children and of churches across Europe were dedicated to him and some time around the 12th century an official church holiday was created in his Feast of was celebrated December 6 and the day was marked by giftgiving and the Reformation, European followers of dwindled, but the legend was kept alive in Holland where the Dutch spelling of his name Sint Nikolaas was eventually transformed to children would leave their woo