This ancient French carol title comes from the Latin word for 'birthday.' The words of the carol describe the Christmas story of the shepherds, the angels, the star and the kings arriving with the gifts. The elation of that blessed night described in the carol was so joyful that it struck severe Puritans in England and the New World colonies as a little too sinfully exuberant, and the carol was suppressed in the mid-17th century.
NAME THAT CHRISTMAS CAROL.
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