Twelve Days of Christmas

…6 is known as the Twelve Days of Christmas. Epiphany is celebrated with special pastries in many countries, and children often receive small gifts in their shoes in honor of the Magi’s gifts to the infant Jesus. The holiday also has a number of traditions involving water as a reflection…

…Incarnation festival, thus establishing the 12-day celebration from Christmas to Epiphany. The particular emphasis in the Eastern feast upon the baptism of Christ led to special liturgical ceremonies of the blessing of waters and the ministration of baptism at this time. In the West, where Christmas was the primary festival,…

…as the last of the Twelve Days of Christmas in Western Christianity. The Magi are memorialized with special pastries in many countries, often with a toy Baby Jesus hidden inside. Having left a bowl of water and some grass or other vegetation for the Magi’s camels the night before, children…