Christmas is celebrated on December 25th to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. It originated as a Christian religious holiday but is now celebrated in many non-Christian countries as well. Traditional Christmas activities include putting up Christmas trees, enacting nativity scenes, hanging stockings by the fireplace, and exchanging gifts. The document discusses the origins and traditions of Christmas celebrations in different parts of the world.

1. By
Rafael
Rodríguez
Prieto
CHRISTMAS

2. What is Christmas?
Why do people celebrate Christmas?
When do people celebrate Christmas?
Where do people celebrate Christmas?
What traditions do people do on Christmas?
INDEX

3.  Christmas is a holiday that celebrate the Jesus or
Crist birth as the name mentions.
 In Christmas we remember the day when our Saviour
was born. That day Herodes sent soldiers to kill him
but Maria and Jose run away from Belen going to
Nazareth.
WHAT IS CHRISTMAS?

4.  People celebrate Christmas because it is the day
that the lord, God, save us sending Christ to Earth
putting him in a virgin woman. Then, the three kings
of Orient gave them gold, incense and myrrh.
WHY DO PEOPLE CELEBRATE
CHRISTMAS?

5.  People celebrate Christmas the twenty-fifth of
December but we don’t know when Christ was born.
So we are celebrating Christmas wrong day ! The
day was chosen near the year 500 A.C.. We don’t
know why people chose that day.
WHEN PEOPLE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?

6.  Christmas is celebrated in countries like: Spain, USA,
Canada, Germany , France… but mainly Christmas is
celebrate by all the Christians: we celebrate the day
when Jesus was born that after will make our
religion, and some Jew people : some Jew people
celebrate Hanuká and Christmas because Jesus was
Jew.
WHERE DOES PEOPLE CELEBRATE
CHRISTMAS?

7.  There are traditions like Christmas tree but on our
days, the Christmas day is a day of spending money
and not a day of celebration cause the lord has born.
 The nativity is another tradition, we put some little
figures with forms of the people who were on Belem
that day.
 Putting socks stuck at the fireplace is another
tradition.
WHAT TRADITIONS DOES PEOPLE DO?