1574 Punishments Imposed for Celebrating Christmas

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By the 1570s the Church of Scotland was adopting an increasingly hard line on religious festivals. In particular there was a campaign against celebrating Christmas (or Yule as it was often known in Scotland). At the beginning of 1574 the St Andrews Kirk Session punished a number of people that ‘observed superstitiously the said Yule day’. The kirk session ordered that anyone who ‘abstained from work’ at Christmas or any other holy day ‘except Sunday’ should be prosecuted.

Source

timelineoffifesreli

Date

1574

Contributor

egsr@st-andrews.ac.uk

Type

Event

Identifier

172

Date Submitted

09/08/2021 11:00:52 am

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Sacred Landscapes of Fife

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TEXT

Event Item Type Metadata

End Date

1574

Prim Media

358

Collection

Museum: Sacred Landscapes of Fife

Citation

“1574 Punishments Imposed for Celebrating Christmas,” Virtual Museum, accessed April 19, 2025, https://sacredlandscapes.org/omeka/items/show/359.

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