>Today, 5 January, is the feast of ...
>* Telesphorus, pope and martyr (c. 136)
>- seventh bishop of Rome; according to the *Liber
>Pontificalis*, he decreed that the Mass of Christmas should
>be celebrated at midnight
Is this correct? I understand that (at least in the Byzantine East) the
feast of Christmas was introduced in the late fourth century (389 is when
Chrysostem first celebrated it).
Did the west introduce it that much earlier?
Caedmon Greene
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