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<blockquote data-quote="traveler" data-source="post: 282913" data-attributes="member: 1954"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Here's a short history of the day...</span></p><p> </p><p><strong>Some historians say the holiday developed because servants were required to work on </strong><a href="http://www.factmonster.com/spot/00holiday1.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #330099"><strong>Christmas Day</strong></span></u></a><strong>, but took the following day off. As servants prepared to leave to visit their families, their employers would present them with gift boxes.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">Another theory is that the boxes placed in churches where parishioners deposited coins for the poor were opened and the contents distributed on December 26, which is also the Feast of </span><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14286b.htm" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #330099">St. Stephen</span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 10px">.</span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>As time went by, Boxing Day gift giving expanded to include those who had rendered a service during the previous year. This tradition survives today as people give presents to tradesmen, mail carriers, doormen, porters, and others who have helped them.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">Boxing Day is December 26, the day after Christmas, and is celebrated in Great Britain and in most areas settled by the English (the U.S. is the major exception), including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.</span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="traveler, post: 282913, member: 1954"] [SIZE=3]Here's a short history of the day...[/SIZE] [B]Some historians say the holiday developed because servants were required to work on [/B][URL="http://www.factmonster.com/spot/00holiday1.html"][U][COLOR=#330099][B]Christmas Day[/B][/COLOR][/U][/URL][B], but took the following day off. As servants prepared to leave to visit their families, their employers would present them with gift boxes.[/B] [B][SIZE=2]Another theory is that the boxes placed in churches where parishioners deposited coins for the poor were opened and the contents distributed on December 26, which is also the Feast of [/SIZE][URL="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14286b.htm"][U][SIZE=2][COLOR=#330099]St. Stephen[/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/URL][SIZE=2].[/SIZE][/B] [B]As time went by, Boxing Day gift giving expanded to include those who had rendered a service during the previous year. This tradition survives today as people give presents to tradesmen, mail carriers, doormen, porters, and others who have helped them.[/B] [B][SIZE=2]Boxing Day is December 26, the day after Christmas, and is celebrated in Great Britain and in most areas settled by the English (the U.S. is the major exception), including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.[/SIZE][/B] [/QUOTE]
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