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Christmas in Corsica was celebrated religiously in joy and contemplation; beliefs, ceremonies and meals were carried out in insular ways.
Christmas of yesteryear was not placed under the sign of abundance. Few cribs or decorations in homes; cut holly or a small arbutus was often the equivalent to a Christmas tree. The ‘Bambinu’ (Jesus, as a child), was found in some churches, where he was presented to each faithful at the end of midnight mass.
The most significant Christian symbol of Christmas was (and still is, in some villages), ‘u focu’ – fire; with huge fires burning in churchyards on the night of December 24th, and until the new year...
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