Practice Christianity
Christmas Eve
Vesper Sanctus la
Evening or entire day before Christmas Day
A discipline,
as the records
describe it.
Rites and disciplines
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Calendar
When it is kept
The days in the year its record gives. A day, not a date: it says nothing about when the observance began.
What this means
The days in the year Wikidata records for Christmas Eve, each in the calendar it names: a month of another calendar is shown as recorded and never converted. Two days are two statements — often two traditions’ days — and are not joined into a span. It does not imply when the festival began, or that every tradition keeping it keeps this day.
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commemoration of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem
Connections
How Christmas Eve connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 4
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
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Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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