Karen McGrath, an employee at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Md., talks on the phone with a caller on the shrine’s prayer hotline April 6, 2021. (Credit: CNS ...
ROME — The church where the tradition of celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 may have begun was built near a pagan shrine as part of an effort to spread Christianity, a leading Italian scholar says.
ROME The church where the tradition of celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 may have begun was built near a pagan shrine as part of an effort to spread Christianity, a leading Italian scholar says.