If you're panicking about finding the time to take your Christmas tree down, you can relax — tradition has it that you have plenty of days well into the new year to remove all traces of the festive...
celebrations, formally begins on Dec. 25. It took the Three Wise Men some time — 13 days, to be specific — to reach Bethlehem to visit baby Jesus. Their arrival signals the end of the Christmas celebrations.
So if we count 12 days from Dec. 25, we reach Jan. 5. According to the Church of England, as reported in, this is the Twelfth Night, which makes Jan. 6 the day of Epiphany. However, Christian groups in other countries start counting from Dec. 26, which makes Jan. 6 the Twelfth Night and Jan. 7 the Epiphany.
Twelfth Night is a big celebration in some cultures, a time for communities to mark the end of the Christmas holidays with one last bit of revelry and a
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