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Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Crīstesmæsse,meaning"Christ's Mass") is an annual festival commemorating thebirth ofJesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as areligiousand cultural celebration among billions of people aroundthe world.A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it ispreparedfor by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast andinitiates theseason of Christmastide, which historically in theWest laststwelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night; in sometraditions,Christmastide includes an Octave.[14] Christmas Day is apublicholiday in many of the world's nations, is celebratedculturally bya large number of non-Christian people, and is anintegral part ofthe holiday season, while some Christian groupsreject thecelebration. In several countries, celebrating ChristmasEve onDecember 24 has the main focus rather than December 25,withgift-giving and sharing a traditional meal with the family.

While the month and date of Jesus' birth are unknown, bytheearly-to-mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church hadplacedChristmas on December 25, a date later adopted in the East.Today,most Christians celebrate Christmas on the date of December25 inthe Gregorian calendar, which is also the calendarinnear-universal use in the secular world. However, someEasternchurches celebrate Christmas on the December 25 of the olderJuliancalendar, which currently corresponds to January 7 in theGregoriancalendar, the day after the Western Christian Churchcelebrates theEpiphany. This is not a disagreement over the date ofChristmas assuch, but rather a disagreement over which calendarshould be usedto determine the day that is December 25. The date ofChristmas mayhave initially been chosen to correspond with the dayexactly ninemonths after the day on which early Christians believedthat Jesuswas conceived,or with one or more ancient polytheisticfestivalsthat occurred near southern solstice (i.e., the Romanwintersolstice); a further solar connection has been suggestedbecause ofa biblical verse[a] identifying Jesus as the "Sunofrighteousness".