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    These Twelve Days:: A Family Guide to After-Christmas Celebrations
    These Twelve Days:: A Family Guide to After-Christmas Celebrations
    These Twelve Days:: A Family Guide to After-Christmas Celebrations
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    These Twelve Days:: A Family Guide to After-Christmas Celebrations

    By James Kasperson and Marina D. Lachecki

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    "These Twelve Days" is an informative, entertaining family guide to understanding and celebrating the traditional twelve days after Christmas. It shares the history of the days following Christ's birth, from the Feast of Stephen to the Feast of the Holy Family, from the stories of Mary and Joseph to those of the Holy Innocents and the Magi. This book gives families meaningful ways to keep the joy and excitement of Christ's birth alive after Christmas Day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUnited Church Press
    Release dateMay 1, 1999
    ISBN9780829821826
    These Twelve Days:: A Family Guide to After-Christmas Celebrations
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    James Kasperson

    James Kasperson serves as pastor of First Lutheran Church in Port Wing, Wisconsin, and as regional hospice chaplain in Ashland, Wisconsin.

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