Tonight Is The Twelth Night

Khandro | 08:02 Fri 05th Jan 2024 | ChatterBank

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" ‘Twelfth Night? What’s that?’ asks my teenage daughter, and I fear she’s not alone.

Oldies may have a vague idea about the origins and traditions of this ancient festival, but for anyone under fifty the name now survives only as the title of a bittersweet Shakespearean comedy. Yet, from Elizabethan times until Victorian times, Twelfth Night was the climax of the festive season – with Epiphany, celebrating the revelation of God incarnate as Christ, and the visit of the Magi to Jesus (pictured, by Edward Burne-Jones), on the following day. " William Cook

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The Christmas season used to end way past the 12th night with Candlemas in February - and at Norwich Cathedral, they still practice this, the tree staying up until then.