Merry Christmas!

The Digs Team would like to wish all our tenants a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We look forward to seeing you again in 2023!

Here are 6 interesting facts about Christmas:

1 – While Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the actual date is lost to history. There is no mention of December 25^th in the bible and many historians say Jesus was actually born in the spring.

2 – The tradition of Christmas trees goes all the way back to ancient Egyptians and Romans, who decorated with evergreens during the winter solstice to signify that spring would return.

3 – The idea of Santa Claus came from St. Nicholas. The saint wasn’t a bearded man who wore a red suit, that tradition came much later! In the fourth century, the Christian Bishop gave away his large inheritance to the poor and rescued women from servitude. In Dutch, his name is Sinter Klaas, which later morphed into Santa Claus in English.

4 – Coca Cola played a part in the image of Santa Claus. Before Coca Cola decided to use his image for advertising, Santa’s looks tended to be more spooky than jolly. Then, in 1931, the beverage company hired an illustrator named Haddon Sundblom to depict the jolly old elf for magazine advertisements.

5 – Silent night is the most played and recorded song, there are more than 733 different versions of the song which have been copyrighted since 1978.

6 – between 1659 and 1681 Christmas was made illegal. Christmas wasn’t even proclaimed a federal holiday for almost another century, proving the Grinch’s attitude towards the holiday was alive and well long before he was!