Wikipedia Trail: St. Nicholas to Liturgical Calendar

St. Nicholas Day: This day is a day celebrated on December 5/6 in western christian countries. It is the feast day of St. Nicholas and is intended to celebrate his reputation as a bringer of gifts. This day looks a lot like Christmas as people typically celebrate by bringing gifts to each other and spending time with their family.

Christmas: This day, celebrated by people all over the globe, is on December 25th. This day is traditionally a celebration of Jesus Christ's birth and has merged with the celebration of St. Nicholas Day. People gather with their families and give each other gifts. Christmas has become a massive, commercialized holiday to many stores and shops all over the world.

Calendar of Saints: The calendar of saints is a method of organizing a liturgical calendar by associating each day with one or more saints in a celebration of a "feast day" Instead of the word meaning feast as in a large meal, it means feast as in an annual religious celebration.

Liturgical Calendar: The liturgical year, also known as the church year or Christian year, as well as the kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of Scripture are to be read either in an annual cycle or in a cycle of several years.

Feast day calendar. Source.

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