The celebration of Christ's birth is a glorious holiday. It is beautiful, warm, festive, joyous, sweet and steeped in tradition.

Life captures, in its time-honored word-and-picture style, the customs of Christmas everywhere, from Sinterklass in Holland to the observance of the winter solstice at England's Stonehenge to the origins of this great day in the Holy Land. On Christmas, the world rejoices and reflects. Here, Life does too, in this special commemorative edition.