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Christmas cards are illustrated messages of greeting exchanged between friends and family members during the weeks preceding Christmas Day. The traditional greeting reads "wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year", much like that of the first commercial Christmas card, produced by Sir Henry Cole in London in 1843.
Idiosyncratic "studio cards" with cartoon illustrations and sometimes risque humor caught on in the 1950s. Nostalgic, sentimental, and religious images have continued in popularity, and, in the 21st century, reproductions of Victorian and Edwardian cards are easy to obtain.
Religious images in Christian theology have a role within the liturgical and devotional life of adherents of certain Christian denominations. The use of religious images has often been a contentious issue in Christian history.
However, images such as paintings of Christ and photographs of LDS Church leaders and temples are common in other parts of church buildings. Unlike many other Christians, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not use the cross, crucifix or ichthys as symbols of faith.
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In the Christian tradition, holy cards or prayer cards are small, devotional pictures for the use of the faithful that usually depict a religious scene or a saint in an image about the size of a playing card.
Michael J. Fox's wife, Tracy Pollan, and one of their twin daughters, Schuyler, enjoyed an adventurous outing together over the weekend, sharing a rare photo to mark the occasion.
Christmas (Māori: Kirihimete [1]) became widely celebrated by Christians in the late 19th century. Today, Christmas Day and Boxing Day are both statutory holidays in New Zealand, and Christmas is celebrated by both Christians and non-Christians.
With the atheistic Cult of Reason in power during the era of the French Revolution, Christian Christmas religious services were banned and the three kings cake was forcibly renamed the "equality cake" under anticlerical government policies.
Tamra Judge ; Inset: Jennifer Pedranti ; Ryan Boyajian Mindy Small/Getty Images ; Inset: Anna Webber/Getty Images Tamra Judge is reacting to her Real Housewives of Orange County costar Ryan ...