Christmas traditions around Europe by Ionita Gabriela https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff en-us 2017-11-09 19:56:36 UTC 2025-11-16 19:29:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png Christmas in Romania faby_fabian17 https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208510735 First of all, Christmas is a celebration of the soul, a feast that everyone has to wait for not to eat all sorts of goodies, but to feel better from the point of view of the soul. Winter holidays are a special time, being a wonderful opportunity to spend a few moments with your loved ones, surrounding the beautiful Christmas tree. Christmas is a family holiday : with all, grandparents, parents, grandchildren, gather together to feel the spirit of celebration.]]> 2017-11-19 19:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208510735 Christmas fair in Romania faby_fabian17 https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208511111 2017-11-19 19:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208511111 Santa's Workshop in Sibiu faby_fabian17 https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208511364 2017-11-19 19:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208511364 Christmas tree https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208758895 In Romania people decorate Christmas tree
by Maria]]> 2017-11-20 15:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208758895 Christmas carols https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208761773 Children go caroling.
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By Maria]]> 2017-11-20 15:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208761773 https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208797762 Christmas Day
The traditional date for the appearance of Santa Claus, obviously from the birthdate of Jesus (the word Christmas is from old English, meaning Christ's mass). This date is near the shortest day of the year, from old times an important agricultural and solar feasting period in Europe. The actual birthday of Jesus is not known and thus the early Church Fathers in the 4th century fixed the day as was most convenient. The best fit seemed to be around the old Roman Saturnalia festival (17 - 21 December), a traditional pagan agricultural stivity with tumultuous and unruly celebrations.
by Maria]]> 2017-11-20 16:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/208797762 Christmas Eve supper - https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/210160336 Christmas Eve is known in Poland as "Wigilia". The main Christmas meal is eaten in the evening and is called Christmas Eve supper. It's traditional that no food is eaten until the first star is seen in the sky! So children look at the night sky to spot the first star!]]> 2017-11-26 16:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/210160336 Christmass meal at school https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/210164341 We have a tradition of having Christmass at school sometime on the last week of school before  we are off. We share christmas eve wafer, have a traditional meal and finally gifts from Santa. There's also a christmass performance prapired by our students.

]]> 2017-11-26 17:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/210164341 Christmas in Italy ornellapalazzo https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/210646686 This is the little Jesus in the crib. We put it in the crib at Christmas 🎄 Eve, when midnight arrives]]> 2017-11-27 20:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/210646686 https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211162007 2017-11-28 20:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211162007 Confession and communion gabriela_ionita1375 https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211192840 The christians preparing their soul ascends to great celebration through fasting, prayer confession and communion, and the House by cleaning it.]]> 2017-11-28 22:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211192840 "Ignatul" https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211199916 The bloody sacrifice of swine and funerary rite of incineration (parlitul swine) the Ibe (Ignis = fire) is a prehistoric practice that survives in the Romanian lands extracarpatice.
by Ana Maria Mitrea]]> 2017-11-28 22:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211199916 Christmas dinner https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211201842 On Christmas Eve, some people do not eat anything or they are fasting, meal being taken in the family, togheter with her godparents, Christmas day, after finishing their jobs.
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]]> 2017-11-28 22:35:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211201842 Gifts for the Carol singers - apples, nuts, pretzels gabrielai75 https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211842711  Nativity is announced in Romania through carols and carols start with the first morning of Christmas Eve are children and youth. They are welcomed by Christians with apples, nuts, pretzels. ]]> 2017-11-30 14:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211842711 Children wandered gabrielai75 https://padlet.com/gabrielai75/er36timjcbff/wish/211845815 On 25 December we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, Christmas is the most important but also the most beleved celebration of the Romanians.

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