Portal:Christmas/Did you know/14

... that Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address was interpreted differently throughout Europe by contemporaries and remains a "lightning rod" of historical interpretations?
...that Scleroderris canker is a fungal disease among coniferous trees, sometimes spread by imported Christmas trees, that can kill an entire forest within a few years?
... that Ludwig I of Bavaria was inspired to commission the Court Church of All Saints in the Munich Residence after attending Christmas mass at the Palatine Chapel in Palermo?

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