Advent Definition
The custom of Christingles began in the Moravian Congregation of Marienborn, in Germany, on 20th December 1747, at a children’s service conducted by John de Watteville. After singing some hymns together he read some verses which the children themselves had written ‘in honour of the Saviour’s birth’. He then explained that happiness had come from the birth of Jesus ‘who has kindled in each little heart a flame which keeps ever burning to their joy and our happiness’
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