CHRISTMAS DATE

Christmas date has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the EUROPEAN PEOPLE category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

25th december is one of the most important date in the history of european integration and will probably have influence on the future of United europe bacause it is the catholic party for Christmas, the birthdate of Jesus said "christ" established by the emperor Constantine I in 325 A.D. at the 1st Council of Nicea as a syncretic dogma among the birthdate of the mitraist Sol Invictus God and of the egyptian Horus God traditionally born at the winter solstice. Nowadays the Christmas date is celebrated in all the Western part of Earth, while in Eastern Europe and Russia has been conserved the originary ortodox date of 6th January.

The Sol Invictus cult was practiced in ancient times in Egypt and Syria and dedicated to the solar god, who was born on the night of 25th december from a virgin mother to show the victory of light on the darkness and remember the God Αίών birth related to the ethernal return of divinity. It had become the most spreaded cult among the romans troops in early Roman Empire, together with the Mitraism as symble of the God's children (puer) sent to englight the darkness reign on Earth (Μεςςίας): that image was attached to Jesus when emerged the Christian Empire in 391 A.D. and Christianity became the only religion admitted, an event that marked the division and conflict with Jewish who never accepted Jesus as their Μεςςίας and condamned him to crucifixion. Regarding the Horus ancient tradition, during the winter solstice the Sun reaches the lower point of its orbital path and so that it been used as icon of reincarnation of the solar God RA, a tradition recovered many centuries after in England into the royal theology doctrine of "king never dies" still adopted nowadays and by all the christian kings in Middle Age after 476 A.D., through their crown radiated by sun rays that illuminated the monarch of the european genealogies.

The 25 december date signed many crucial events along the history of european integration:

1. in the morning of 800 A.D. in the Saint Peter basilica in Rome, the Pope crowned Charlemagne as new christian emperor by following the ancient roman rites;

   
   

2. in 390 A.D. Saint Ambrose imposed to the emperor Theodosius I a penitence and the sanction about Christianity only religious cult accepted;

   
   

3. in 537 A.D. the emperor Justinian I made rebuild the Constantinople basilica and dedicated to Santa Sophia, as new seat for the Patriarc of the capital of the Byzantine Empire where to crown all the byzantine basileius until the fall of Constantinople;

   
   

4. in 1000 A.D. Stephen I of the Arpad dinasty was crowned as first christian king of Hungary, with a crown radiated sent by the Pope and used by all the successor until the firstworldwar;

   
   

5. in 1066 A.D. William I "the conqueror" of the Normandy dinasty was crowned as king of England in Westminster abbey, while in 1130 A.D. it happened to Roger II of the Hauteville dinasty became the first king of Sicily in the cathedral of Palermo, where sublime mosaic still reminds his crowning personally by Jesus.

   
   

---