From Boxing Day to Yule, the month of December includes several cultural and religious holidays from around the world
of the Virgin Mary that some Catholic believers say was witnessed by an Indigenous Mexican man in 1531.Families take a photo in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary displayed on a pickup truck outside the historic Our Lady Queen of Angels Church on December 12, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.The eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah begins Dec. 18.
A central part of the Jewish Festival of Lights entails the lighting of a nine-branched menorah each night. The ritual symbolizes how one day’s worth of oil miraculously lasted for eight days during a battle between a small group of Jewish people and the powerful Greek-Syrian army in 165 B.C. Per Jewish tradition, they are said to have emerged victorious and reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
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