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The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas

Name: The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas
Start: 2025-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-02
Location: US Holidays

The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas is held on January 2. Western Christianity. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual.

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2 January - The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas

The best example of this is a rite that Constantine VII documents in De Ceremoniis which he titles the “Gothic Game,” a Christmas tradition that is to take place on the ninth day of the advent. This game includes two men, from the Byzantine sports teams the “Blues” and “Greens” who dress up like Gothic men and cause an uproar during the Christmas feast. The Gothic Game ceremonial event highlights how Byzantine ceremony utilized other cultures to use as barbarians to display cultural superiority.

”On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Nine ladies dancing.” The nine ladies dancing are the nine different fruits of the Holy Spirit. The ninth day honors two important Christians St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen from the 4th century. It is a tradition to bake sweet bread that has a coin in it, bless the baked bread, and serve it to the family on St Basils feast day. This is sometimes referred to as the “Vasilopita” which translates to “Sweet Bread of Basil. Tradition holds that the person who receives the coin is commissioned to preserve St. Basils work of helping the poor as well as to be especially blessed for the New Years.

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