[iowamark]

Not until 1856 did Christmas, along with Washington's Birthday and the Fourth of July, finally become a public holiday in Massachusetts.

Calvinists rejected holidays (Holy Days) like Christmas (Christ's Mass) as too Catholic. More generally, they rejected any feasting and frivolity.

[the_Watchman]

The Christian church did not celebrate Christmas until the fourth century. We know this because we have the sermons of the Bishop of Constantinople, John Chrysostom, where he explains the new holy day to his congregation.