Sentences with phrase «already celebrating the birth»
Alvin J. Schmidt, in his scholarly work «Under the Influence», states that in northern Africa Christians were already celebrating the birth date of Jesus as December 25 in A.D. 243, 30 years before Aurelian's edict.
https://www.premierchristianity.com/ Not exact matches
It was in the late third century, in fact, that the Roman emperor Aurelian established this date as a feast day celebrating the birth of the Unconquered Sun (Sol Invictus), so it already had festive and quasi-religious prominence.
Paris has already celebrated the centenary of Giacometti's birth this year with a superlative show at the Centre Georges Pompidou that concentrated on his drawings.