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Marievic
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i know from my roman catholic background that we have a MAS celebrating CHRIST on the 25th of December maybe thats where it comes from?
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celebrating CHRISTS MASS.
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Middle English Cristemas, from Old English Crstes mæsse, Christ's festival. The earliest reference to the celebration of the Nativity on December 25 was found in a manuscript compiled in Rome in 354.
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From Old and Middle English. It is a compound word meaning Christ's Mass (mass as in the Roman Catholic celebration of the eucharist). The word was first recorded in 1038, according to a 1913 edition of "The Catholic Encyclopedia."
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