The Christmas Tree





There are many myths
and legends
surrounding the
tradition of the Christmas tree.
The one I like the
most is the story of Saint Boniface.
Saint Boniface was
walking through some woods in Germany
when he came upon
a gathering of people
with lighted candles
who were just about to make an offering
to a pagan god by
sacrificing a small boy already tied to an oak tree.
Saint Boniface stopped
them, got them to put their candles on a nearby spruce tree,
and proceeded, by
candle light, to teach them about a loving God
and the teachings
of his son, Jesus.
It was Prince Albert,
Queen Victoria's Husband,
who made the Christmas
tree popular in England.
He decorated one
in the German custom for his children
and wrote to his
father in 1841.
"Today I have
two children of my own,they are full of happy wonder
at the German Christmas
tree and its radiant candles".



