Changing traditions: Christmas past bows to Christmas present
by Julia Slater in Basel, swissinfo.ch Dec 24, 2012 – 11:00 Feasting and gift-giving, lighting candles and general revelry: celebrations in late December were described by the Latin poet Catullus as “the best of days”. But he didn’t mean Christmas: he was talking of the Roman festival of Saturnalia. The […]