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What caused Christmas?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Christmas was causen by Jesus's birthday.

Roman Catholic AnswerIn England, holidays were know by their feasts, thus Michaelmas is the feast of Saint Michael: Michael's Mass, the Mass that was said on that day in honor of the archangel, Michael. Christmas is the English word for "Christ's Mass", the feast of the birthday of our Lord. The formal cause would indeed be Jesus' birthday, the material cause would be the feast that the Church celebrates for Christ's birth, and the instrumental cause would be the people who were joyful and trying to find an outlet for that joy.
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