Christmas trees were tree-shaped pyramids made of wooden or feather trees and lit by candles. Christmas trees are very adorable and we even more love, enjoy and look forward to celebrating Christmas because of the trees in our houses that we are fond of. But, are we aware of how it all began? Let us have a bit glimpse of how it all started…
It is known that St. Boniface, a priest or monk from England, in Crediton, Devonshire, who founded Christian churches in Germany and in France during the 7th Century, a day arrived upon the crowd of pagans assembled around a huge oak tree is about to give a kid to the god Thor. To end that offering and rescue the kid’s life, Boniface dropped the tree with a strong blow from his fist. With its rest grew a tiny fir tree. He told the pagan devotee that the small fir was actually the Tree of Life and sets for the undying life of Christ.
Saint Boniface applied the triangular figure of the fir tree to illustrate the Sacred Trinity of God our Father, the Holy Ghost and the Son. During the 12th Century, the trees were hung upside down from the ceilings as a sign of Christianity. One December, Ancient Egyptians carried green palm twigs in their homes as a sign of life’s victory over death. Golden apples were used by Druid priests as an ornament in their oak trees for the winter solstice festivity. While one Middle Ages December, the trees were hung up with red apples, being the sign for the feast of Eve and Adam and it is called, Paradise Tree.
Saint Boniface applied the triangular figure of the fir tree to illustrate the Sacred Trinity of God our Father, the Holy Ghost and the Son. During the 12th Century, the trees were hung upside down from the ceilings as a sign of Christianity. One December, Ancient Egyptians carried green palm twigs in their homes as a sign of life’s victory over death. Golden apples were used by Druid priests as an ornament in their oak trees for the winter solstice festivity. While one Middle Ages December, the trees were hung up with red apples, being the sign for the feast of Eve and Adam and it is called, Paradise Tree.
The First Christmas Trees
PARIS, 1510 – It is the initial orientation of the fir tree ornamented for Christmas was at the Riga in Latvia. During 1521, Princess Hlne de Mecklembourg initiated a Christmas tree after getting married to the Duke of Orleans.
PARIS, 1510 – It is the initial orientation of the fir tree ornamented for Christmas was at the Riga in Latvia. During 1521, Princess Hlne de Mecklembourg initiated a Christmas tree after getting married to the Duke of Orleans.
GERMANY, 1531 - There had been written records of Christmas trees.
-While in 1601, a visitor to Strasbourg noticed a family ornamenting a tree with golden twists sugar or barley sugar, wafers and colorful paper flowers.
-While in 1601, a visitor to Strasbourg noticed a family ornamenting a tree with golden twists sugar or barley sugar, wafers and colorful paper flowers.
UNITED STATES, 1804 – It was initiated by Hessian mercenaries and by settlers bid to battle in the Revolutionary combat. A US soldier positioned at Fort Dearborn, Chicago drag trees from enclosing woods into their barracks.
BRITAIN, 1841 - Christmas tree was introduced by the German husband of Queen Victoria’s, Prince Albert, who carried the Christmas tree into the Windsor Castle for their Royal family. The tradition of the putting on Christmas tree rapidly spread to the middle class, up to the working people, and all through the colonies, wherein the flag of the Empire might sometimes top of the tree.