Do the 12 days of Christmas end at Epiphany or at "Old Christmas"?

mhenson400

The twelve days end at the Epiphany. http://www.crivoice.org/cy12days.html Dec 30 12, 2:30 AM

MyGirl2000

Meaning of the 12 days of Christmaswww.smartguy.com/index.asp?id=655&c=12-Days-of-Christmas The twelve days begin with the birth of the Christ child, and end on January 6th, the Feast of Epiphany. They chronicle the twelve days that the Wise Men followed the star which led them to the manger where baby Jesus lay. Dec 30 12, 2:32 AM

sportsherald

The current difference between the "Old Christmas" (using the Julian calendar) and the "Modern Christmas (using the Gregorian calendar) is 13 days, not 12, and (as noted in other answers) this is not related to the "!2 Days of Christmas." "Eventually other countries followed the reform for the sake of consistency, but by the time the last adherents of the Julian calendar in Eastern Europe (Russia and Greece) changed to the Gregorian system in the 20th century, they had to drop 13 days from their calendars, due to the additional difference between the two calendars accumulated after 1582." -from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar Dec 31 12, 3:19 PM