In this thread share random facts about the holiday you celebrate!

Today St. Nick's Day! 

What is St. Nick's Day? It's mainly celebrate in Europe. Back in the day a man named Nickolas gave candy and small toys to children. Santa Claus came from this!

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The four Sundays before Christmas Day are referred to as Advent. Each Sunday, Christians celebrate a certain aspect about Christmas. This is done typically with a Advent Wreath, which has slot for 4 candle around it, and in the center goes a 5th candle. 3 candles are purple 1 candle is pink, and the one in the middle is white. 

The first purple candle represents Prophecy or Hope. It represents the word of God and how we can have hope in it. 

The second purple candle represents Bethlehem, or the little town that Jesus was born in. 

The third candle is the pink one and it represents the shepherds that we visited by the angels on the night of Jesus' birth, and the joyful songs that they sang. 

The fourth purple candle represents the Angels themselves and the love they had in their hearts as they spread the news of Jesus' birth. It also represents the love that God has for us as his children. 

And the fifth candle is the Christ candle. It is white to represent the purity of Jesus and that his mission when being on Earth was to wash away our sins by dying for us on the cross. 

Plus the wreaths are very pretty ^^

Candy canes were originally made to keep kids quiet during Church XD

5th candle? O.o I didnt know there was a 5th...

Im such a bad catholic..Unless catholics dont use it?

*shrugs* We always used a 5th one in the middle xD Maybe it's a Luthern thing? O.o I have no idea XD

Yeah! Looked it up there are some variations to this! Some do have a 5th candle! 

I was right then! Catholics dont have the 5th. Just the 4. 3 purple and one pink.

Oh nice xD Well hey another fact of the day XD