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Medieval Christmas and its pagan influences!

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Tony McMahon

How the Christian church transformed the pagan Winter Solstice into the medieval Christmas – through compromise and absorbing the unthinkable.

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Category: Knights Templar, Templar History Tags: buried, Christmas feasting, history, Medieval, medieval Christmas, mumming, pagan Christmas, Saturnalia, Templar, Viking Christmas, winter solstice

How a Knight Templar celebrated Christmas!

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Tony McMahon

Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at how Christmas would have been celebrated by the Knights Templar – welcome to a medieval Christmas of feasting!

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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