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Spirit of Festival: What Lies Behind the Carol, The West Australian, 24 December 1937

This article from The West Australian traces the history of Christmas carols back to the medieval period. It dates their origin to the beginning of the thirteenth century, when Francis of Assisi taught children to dance around a model of the manger…

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