For Christians, the Christmas tree stands for the life Christ brings. It stays green through the winter, it recalls the tree of life in Eden and the wood of the cross, and its lights point to Christ, the light of the world. A citizen of Strasbourg described the first one we know of in a family’s parlour, in 1605. From parlours like that one the custom travelled, household by household, all the way to St Peter’s Square. The Catholic bishops…

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