>>48910092Not true, Christmas was not moved to the 25th to replace Saturnalia, because Saturnalia ovcured either before or on the Winter Solstice which is on the 22nd at the latest. The Christian calendar of Polemius Silvus, written around AD 449, mentions Saturnalia, recording that 'it used to honour the god Saturn'. This suggests it had by then become just another popular carnival.