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One of our priests is a Biblical scholar and I'll bet if he were asked about how did December 25th finally became the 'official' birthday for Jesus that his response would not be all that different than what Linus stated. I know because I've attended many of the 'classes' he holds for members of our church, particularly during the Lenten season and during Advent. In his last class we had a really good discussion of some of the interesting bits of church history that is not often talked about including the lives of the Saints. He recommended, and I just read on my last flight back East, a small book titled 'Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints', by Thomas J. Craughwell.
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