Wishing someone a Merry Christmas has been around since at least 1534, when bishop John Fisher wrote a letter to Henry VIII's chief minister Thomas Cromwell, although it was written as “mery ...

Merry Christmas to someone who’s sweeter than a candy cane, warms me up more than a cup of hot cocoa and fills my heart with ...

Experts have discovered the Bishop of Hereford Charles Booth wrote a letter (pictured) to his colleague Canon William Burghill in 1520, saying he hoped he would be merry this Christmas.

Brian Earl’s Christmas Past: The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holiday’s Traditions traces the first known instance of “Merry Christmas” to a 16th-century letter from a bishop to ...