The Catholic Church blended many pagan holy days into the calendar to draw in the pagans. It helped them make more money. Easter was named after Ester which was named after Ishtar. Christmas was drawn from the holiest day of the Druid’s and other pagans. The tree is part of the evidence. Decorating a tree was forbidden in the Old Testament. The Catholic Church also created purgatory to draw away even the last penny from the widows, saying their loved ones were suffering in a place that never existed in any Bible, and the only way out was to pay to pray them out. A penny a candle to light one when I was a kid. The Christ was born closer to Easter and died closer to September.