It was in sixteenth century Germany, or so the legend has it, in a town called Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt.
That
the founder of the protestant church, Martin Luther, was the first to decorate
a Christmas tree with lighted candles.
Apparently
when he was walking home through the forest one dark and frosty winter’s night,
his attention was drawn to the myriad of bright stars that he could see
sparkling and twinkling through the branches of the fir trees.
The
beauty of the nights display had a great effect on him, and he proceeded home
very excited.
When
he arrived home, he relayed to his family what he had seen and what had excited
him so and almost immediately he set about decorating his Christmas tree with
candles and then to his families surprise he lit them.
Goodness
only knows what his family thought, that he was possessed possibly.
And
what of the other people in the town what did they think of him and his antics.
It
probably caused more consternation than the reformation.
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