Many of you asked me about Boxing Day.. I have heard many different versions..I was always told it was when the rich gave boxes of leftover food and gifts to their servants the day after christmas. here is what I found on the web.
Boxing Day:
The day after Christmas Day is known as Boxing Day, after the tradition of opening the alms boxes placed in churches
over the Christmas season. The contents were distributed amongst the poor of the parish. December 26 is also known
as the Feast of St Stephen. It is often a day of outdoor sports and horse racing and hunting. Only in the last century
however has it become a holiday. By having Christmas Day and Boxing Day as holidays this allowed many people to
take trips but also rejoin family members, which may have encouraged the tradition of families getting together at
Christmas time.
9 comments:
Yes thats how I understand it too .love Jan xx
Thanks, cause I was one trying to figure out what Boxing Day was. I think the USA should consider a Boxing Day.
Missie
Thats how i understood it. but has i was growing up we were made to write letters of thanks to aunts and uncles who gave us gifts on christmas day. i hated boxing days lol.
Katie
I new about the ffod etc being given to servants, and also new about all the sport being lpayed, we still have racing on Boxing day. Never new about the Feast of Stephen though, is't there a carol mentioning it?
Good King Wensleslas look out,
on the Feast of Stephen.
All the snow lay round about,
deep and crisp and even.
Ta daaaaaaaaaaaaa, I never new I could sing too!
x
thanks for the explanation; I always would see it on the calendar and wonder what it was.
Maria
Boxing Day is fine with me. I always take off the 26th anyway. I also am dealing with "boxes" that our gifts came in....LOL.
Just me being funny.
Like your journal too. Thanks for dropping by.
Sonya
Thanks for the explanation.
Missy
thanks for the info :) v
Sounds like a good holiday
Traci
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