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Part One: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas
57:24
Published: Mon Dec 19 2022
Description
Margaret talks with Garrison Davis about how the Church tried, and largely failed, to stop the wild revelry of the winter solstice.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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