It is not easy to pin-point the 【C1】______ of the Christmas feast, today the most importan
solstice.
In many of the Christian 【C14】______ , March25thisstillthe Feast of the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel 【C15】______ to Mazy that she【C16】______ the mother of Jesus.
【C17】______ impulse for the feast of Christmas may have came too 【C18】______ the establishment of the pagan feast of the "Unconquered Sun-God" by the Emperor Aurelian in 274 A.D. to be celebrated on December 25, the day of the winter solstice in Rome and throughout the empire. 【C19】______ , Christians could celebrate the feast of the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4,2), Jesus Christ, who called himself" 【C20】______ of the world."
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A.religion
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D.oration