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		<title>Was St. Patrick Irish?</title>
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		<title>Why is Christmas celebrated on December 25?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most Christians today probably can&#8217;t imagine Christmas on any other day than December 25, but it wasn’t always that way. In fact, for the first three centuries of Christianity’s existence, Jesus Christ’s birth wasn’t celebrated at all. The religion’s most significant holidays were Epiphany on January 6, which commemorated the arrival of the Magi after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who were the Knights Templar?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Christian fighters captured Jerusalem during the First Crusade, groups of pilgrims from across Western Europe began visiting the Holy Land. Around 1118, a French knight named Hugues de Payens founded a military order devoted to protecting these pilgrims, calling it the Poor Knights of the Temple of King Solomon (later the Knights Templar). In [...]]]></description>
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