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From: plaskon@hplabsc.UUCP (Dawn Plaskon)
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Subject: Re: xmas.trivia
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Date: Tue, 13-Dec-83 17:09:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 13 17:09:05 1983
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I believe the twelve days of Christmas start the day after Christmas.  
The twelfth day is January 6th, which in the Orthodox Catholic church
is Christmas.  As a child I was able to celebrate Christmas twice, once
within my grandfather's family (they were one of the Catholic variants
which fall under the Roman pope) on December 25th, and twelve days 
later with my grandmother's family (who were on the other side of the
mid-century Catholic schism).  The twelfth day is also Epiphany in the
Roman church.