Boxing Day 2016

#BoxingDay

#BoxingDay

Why is it called Boxing Day?

According to some Boxing Day can be traced back to the Victorian era when churches often displayed a box into which their parishioners put donations.

Also in Britain, on the day after Christmas Day, servants of the wealthy were given time off to visit their families because their services were required for the Christmas Day celebrations of their employers.

They were therefore allowed the following day for their own observance of the holiday and each servant would be handed a box to take home, containing gifts, bonuses and sometimes leftover food.

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  1. Wow it should be a world wide holiday doing just that. We have Boxing day in Jamaica as well, when I was a child I would accompany my grandparents on some of their visits to the poor, they would give them food and pray with them. Loved it!

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