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<div style="float:left;margin:0.5em 0.9em 0.4em 0;">[[File:Logo of the Shia Convocation.png|150px]]</div> The '''Shia Convocation''' ({{wp|Indonesian language|Indonesian}}: Konvokasi Syi'i; {{wp|Dutch language|Dutch}}: De Sjiitische Vergadering) is the supreme governing body of [[Esoteric Shi'ism]] headquartered on Mount Ilias, a verdant hill range in Java, [[Hindia Belanda]] rising over 500 metres above sea level and entirely owned by the institution. The Shia Convocation is headed by the [[Auxiliary Imam]] who acts as the spiritual guide of Esoteric Shias during the ongoing absence of the Imam of the Time (the Twelfth Imam), a period which Shias believe will continue until the {{wp|Second Coming of Jesus Christ}}.  
<div style="float:right;margin:1em;">[[File:Châteauneuf-sur-Cher-Basilique-NDDE-Crèche-Noël-01.jpg|200px]]</div>'''Christmas in Great Nortend''' is a widely celebrated holiday, as in most {{wp|Christian}} countries. As one of the [[Nortish Rite#Calendar|great high festivals]] observed by the [[Church of Nortend]], it commands a place in the religious life of the nation second only to Easter. As such, Christmas is normally celebrated focussing on religious tradition, commemorating the actual birthday of Jesus Christ, although more secular customs have always been a staple of the season since its inception in Great Nortend with the arrival and spread of Christianity in the 8th century.  


As an organisation, the Shia Convocation enjoys a unique legal status within Hindia Belanda derived from the colonial-era Treaty of Bukit Ilias which accorded the then-Shia Community of Bukit Ilias significant autonomy from colonial rule. As recorded on colonial government documents, when colonial Governors-General climbed Mount Ilias to meet the Auxiliary Imam, they were said to have paid a 'state visit', indicating that the Shia Convocation was treated in the same manner as the self-governing Vorstenlanden. Following the independence of Hindia Belanda from Noordenstaat, the Hindia Belandan government agreed to partially honour the treaty and recognise the Shia Convocation as a legal body with the ability to enter into treaties with sovereign countries, although neither its properties nor the land which it owns in Hindia Belanda enjoy the status of being sovereign. ('''[[Shia Convocation|See more...]]''')
Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, but is followed by various festivals until Epiphany on January 6th, making the „Twelve Days of Christmas”. Christmas is preceded by the six weeks of Advent which is characterised by penance and fasting. Hence, when the Christmas season, called Christmastide, arrives, it is all the more spectacularly marked by festivities, feasting, shopping and general merriments. Christmas is also the beginning of the Christmas term, one of the four quarterly terms of the [[Civil year of Great Nortend|civil year]] which begins on Michaelmas, September 29th, in the Michaelmas term. ('''[[Christmas in Great Nortend|See more...]]''')
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Christmas in Great Nortend is a widely celebrated holiday, as in most Christian countries. As one of the great high festivals observed by the Church of Nortend, it commands a place in the religious life of the nation second only to Easter. As such, Christmas is normally celebrated focussing on religious tradition, commemorating the actual birthday of Jesus Christ, although more secular customs have always been a staple of the season since its inception in Great Nortend with the arrival and spread of Christianity in the 8th century.

Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, but is followed by various festivals until Epiphany on January 6th, making the „Twelve Days of Christmas”. Christmas is preceded by the six weeks of Advent which is characterised by penance and fasting. Hence, when the Christmas season, called Christmastide, arrives, it is all the more spectacularly marked by festivities, feasting, shopping and general merriments. Christmas is also the beginning of the Christmas term, one of the four quarterly terms of the civil year which begins on Michaelmas, September 29th, in the Michaelmas term. (See more...)

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