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    Italians eat seven fishes on Christmas eve, but why seven?

    Question #89976. Asked by star_gazer. (Dec 17 07 8:47 AM)


    zbeckabee

    		Italians around the world celebrate Christmas Eve with a Feast of the Seven Fishes, also known as La Vigilia.

    It is a meal that consists of, typically, seven different seafood dishes. Some Italian families have been known to celebrate with 9, 11 or 13 different seafood dishes. This celebration is a commemoration of the wait, Vigilia di Natale, for the midnight birth of the baby Jesus.

    There are many hypotheses for what the number "7" relates to, one being the number of Sacraments in the Catholic Church.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_seven_fishes

    Dec 17 07, 9:16 AM
    McGruff

    		Also see

    http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question8701.html

    Dec 17 07, 9:23 AM

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