On Christmas Eve was a book published in 2006 by Ann M. Martin. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Ann Matthews Martin (born August 12, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American author of childrens and young adult books, most notably the The Baby-sitters Club series. ...
Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church.
Gervase of Tilbury (thirteen century) says that in England grain is exposed on Christmas night to gain fertility from the dew which falls in response to "Rorate Cæli"; the tradition that trees and flowers blossomed on this night is first quoted from an Arab geographer of the tenth century, and extended to England.
Nicholas and his "reformed" equivalent, Father Christmas -- be ascribed to the stepping of a saint into the shoes of Woden, who, with his wife Berchta, descended on the nights between 25 December and 6 January, on a white horse to bless earth and men.
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