School: Presentation Convent, Lucan
- Location:
- Lucan, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Sr M. Gabriel
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On New Year's Eve a candle is lighted and left on the table. Usually people have a party in honour of the feast.
- It was always an old custom of the people of old to prepare a great feast for the Holy Child on Christmas Eve night and to leave the door open so that he might rest in the house."Tonight I'll tend the hearthstone, and rake the ashes in, and make the little house like a bright new fin"It is said that the 'Blessed Bahe of Light' comes down on earth from heaven on every Christmas night.
The reason the people put up holly is when Our Lord Jesus Christ was born in the lonely stable at Bethleham, in the same city lived a boy aged about 5 years. One day as he was talking to his mother he said I would(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Teresa Mulligan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Canonbrook, Co. Dublin
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- Mrs Mulligan
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- Gender
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- Canonbrook, Co. Dublin
