How the Christian church transformed the pagan Winter Solstice into the medieval Christmas – through compromise and absorbing the unthinkable.
Read More
Category: Knights Templar, Templar History
Tags: buried, Christmas feasting, history, Medieval, medieval Christmas, mumming, pagan Christmas, Saturnalia, Templar, Viking Christmas, winter solstice
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at how Christmas would have been celebrated by the Knights Templar – welcome to a medieval Christmas of feasting!
Read More
Category: Templar History
Tags: bethlehem, birth, bishop, boy, Christmas, crib, jesus, king, knight, Knightfall, manger, medieval, mummer, mumming, Nicholas, peacock, queen, saint, Templar, wassail, wassailing, Yule
You must be logged in to post a comment.