The True Meaning of "Twelve Days of Christmas" Truely Shocking !!

The "Twelve Days of Christmas" was originally written to help Catholic children, in England, remember different articles of faith during the persecution by Protestant Monarchs. The "true love" represented God, and the gifts all different ideas:
The "Partridge in a pear tree" was Christ.
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity-- the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which relays the history of man's fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of Creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments
8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed

DecoSweets - from Japan - Minatures

My daughter has opened a new store - DecoSweets on etsy. She has 3 stores on etsy and one on Yahoo.

I love all the mini foods from Japan and the supplies for making them.

Here is her profile from this store -

Hi! My name is Sofia. I’m Canadian and married to a wonderful Japanese man. I’ve been living here in Japan for almost 11 years and have no plans to leave!I decided to open this store because Japan has so many great "decosweets" items and our other store is big enough! This store will be exclusively for cute supplies you can use to make or decorate your own creations! Things like whip cream clay, fruit sticks, books on how to make cute clay creations, molds, deco sauce etc will be for sale.

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Please have a look of this new store -- minis are so fun!!!!!