The first glass ornaments for the Christmas tree were a kind of glass ball called Kugels and were believed to protect homes from evil spirits. These were first produced at Lauscha in Germany around 1830.
Thursday, 15 April 2021
PROTECTOR OF THE WEAK
In Russia St Nicholas is greatly revered as the protector of the weak from the strong, the oppressed from the oppressor, and the poor from the rich.
He is regarded as the Christian champion of the disadvantaged and In the
Orthodox tradition he is the known as the Wonder or Miracle Worker.
THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SMALL TOWN SANTA (2014)
On the eve of Christmas, Rockford County Sheriff Rick Langston (Dean Cain) has lost his holiday spirit.
That isn’t helped when he catches a local man who
had stolen the baby Jesus from a Nativity scene in order end up in a warm jail
cell.
Later he finds a man at his
home and Rick naturally assumes he has broken in even though he looks and acts
a lot like Santa Claus.
But he arrests the jolly old man in the red suit
anyway and places him in jail with the Nativity thief and then both he and
Santa open the sheriff’s eyes to a few things.
Unexpectedly Sheriff Langston then meets a woman
who has just moved to Rockford named Lucy Hart (Christine Lakin) and after
meeting her and her daughter Alana (Sophie Bolen) he
comes to realise that even when you feel that all is lost, love is all around
you
and that his life promises more than he could have hoped for and he had a
renewed belief in the possibility of miracles.
THE KISSING BOUGH
The kissing bough was made out of mistletoe, holly, ivy, and any other available evergreens.
It was shaped into a double hoop and had bright streamers flowing from the top
and was decorated with apples, pears, ribbons, and lighted candles.
Anyone found under the bough, as with mistletoe, was to be kissed without
delay.
The kissing bough was very popular in England, but its heyday was before the arrival
of the Christmas tree.
TRIVIAL TITBIT # 02
Chanukah is the Jewish Festival of Lights an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem during which a special eight-branched candelabrum is slowly lit over eight days.
VICTORIOUS CHRISTMAS PIE
In the nineteenth century
At
Christmas time
The
old queen, Victoria
Gave,
to her senior staff
And
closest friends
A
specially commissioned
Victorian
Christmas pie
An
extraordinary example
Of
culinary magnificence
The
pie consisted firstly
Of
a woodcock
Small
and plump
Which
was then stuffed inside
A
well hung and gamey pheasant
Which
in its turn
Was
stuffed inside
A
fat corn fed chicken
As
if this was not enough
The
chicken itself was then
Stuffed
into a huge Turkey
Until
Finally
The
great weight of fowl
Was
placed upon a dish
And
surrounded by special stuffing
And
baked beneath
THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS GIFT (2009)
Jack Green (Dean Cain) inherited a southern Californian horse ranch from his father complete with an all-natural toy factory in the barn. Along with his wife Cherie (Jean Louisa Kelly) he is bullied into taking in the three “holy terrors” from orphanage run by his bossy aunt Rita (Mimi Kennedy).
It's
only for a few weeks while renovations are done which would be completed before
the holidays.
Mike (Dylan Sprayberry) and his buddies, Henry (Alex Zubarev) and Ray (Spencer Bridges), prove to be a
handful, but Jack proves that he has father-potential and he and Cherie like
having them around.
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