In Gladbury, a quaint English village, an angel visits the local candlemaker every 25 years and blesses a candle. The person who lights this candle on Christmas Eve is granted a miracle. However, in ...

Advent 2024 starts on Sunday. Dec. 1. Here's what Christians do during Advent, how long it lasts and how it's different from ...

Advent is the start of the Christian church's liturgical year ... one of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas. In some churches and homes, a fifth candle that is larger and white is lit ...

The early Christians did not celebrate Christmas, and it wasn’t until the fourth century that the date of 25 December was decided on. orange = the world candle = Jesus, the light of the world ...