The Jolly History of Christmas Carols

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Those Christmas carols that have been fa-la-la-ing through the mall since mid-October would’ve sounded strange to our early Christian ancestors—and not just the ditties about Rudolph and Santa. The first Christmas songs were austere, theologically laden hymns, written in Latin in about the fourth century when the holiday was first formalized and attached to Dec. View Website VIP Subscription

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