The Twelve Days of Christmas, or Twelve Days of Christmastide, is the festive Christian season celebrating the Nativity of Jesus. In Western Christianity it begins with Christmas Day and includes Saint Stephen's Day, the Feast of Saint John the Apostle, Childermas, New Year's Eve or Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Day or the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, and the Feast of the Holy Family. It ends with Twelfth Night or Epiphany Eve.
