Feast of the Circumcision of Christ of Jesus. Pope John XXIII's 1960 rubrical and calendrical revision called 1 January simply the Octave of the Nativity. (This 1960 calendar was incorporated into the 1962 Roman Missal, whose continued use is authorized by the motu proprio "Summorum Pontificum".) The 1969 revision states: "1 January, the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord, is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, and also the commemoration of the conferral of the Most Holy Name of Jesus." The Anglican communion's "Book of Common Prayer" liturgy celebrates this day as the Circumcision of Christ. Since 2000, the "Common Worship"
Christmas in the Philippines The date commemorates the image's 1787 "traslación" (solemn transfer) from its original location in what is now Rizal Park to its present shrine in the Quiapo District of the city. The latest date for the end of popular Christmas celebrations is the Feast of the "Santo Niño" (Christ Child) on the third Sunday of January. The image depiction most associated with this day is the purportedly miraculous Santo Niño de Cebú, the first Christian icon brought to the islands. In 1521, Ferdinand Magellan came to Cebú and gave the image as a present to Humamay, chief consort of the local