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[Roger Stokes]

On 25/12/2016 06:07, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> And then there's Old Christmas, which some of the folks in the mountain mission churches talked about. And one of the customs with that was to go "Kris Kringling," which I never figured out. I had wondered if the day was actually the Epiphany, but they weren't too sure about that.

That would be Christmas Day as observed by some Orthodox. It's when 25 
December would have been had 11 days not been skipped over in 1752 to 
try and get us back closer to date4s as measured by the earth's orbit of 
the sun. This is seen in the difference between the (old) Julian and the 
(new) Gregorian calendar introduced in 1582. Until 2000 it fell on 6 
January in the Gregorian calendar but is now 7 January.

Roger