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Detailed explanation-1: -Although most Christians celebrate December 25 as the birthday of Jesus Christ, few in the first two Christian centuries claimed any knowledge of the exact day or year in which he was born.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first official mention of December 25 as a holiday honoring Jesus’ birthday appears in an early Roman calendar from AD 336.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The real reason for the selection of Dec. 25 seems to have been that it is exactly nine months after March 25, the traditional date of Jesus’ crucifixion. … As Christians developed the theological idea that Jesus was conceived and crucified on the same date, they set the date of his birth nine months later.”