When was Jesus really born?
The quick answer is that December 25thbecause supposedly from there it derives that the Christmas festivities take place, however there is no record that indicates that it was on that date that Jesus was born.
Actually the date was selected by the Christian church in order to have a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but none of the evangelical texts specifically indicates December 24 or 25.
Namely, there is no explicit answer to the date of birth of Jesus.
What is the origin of Christmas?
The most accepted theory is that the date coincides with the Roman celebrations of Saturn, the god of agriculture and the harvest. Las Saturanles, were pagan festivities that took place between December 17 and 23, to coincide with the winter solstice in Europe.
The church took advantage of this existing date to convert the pagan Romans into Christians. In the year 440 Pope Leo the Great commemorated the date as Christmas and in 529 the holiday was declared official in the Roman Empire.
Is Santa Claus real?
Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas is based on a real figure, it is the Christian bishop of Greek origin Nicholas of Bari, who lived in the IV century. It is believed that he was born approximately in the year 280 in Myra, a city in the District of Lycia, in present-day Turkey.
He was the son of a wealthy family, but with the arrival of the black paste, his parents died. According to what is said, before this, Nicolás distributed his goods to help others who needed it and faced the disease. He later went to live with his uncle, who was the Bishop of Mira, and enlisted as a priest. After his uncle’s death, he was chosen to replace him.