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Italians around the world celebrate Christmas Eve with a Feast of the Seven Fishes, also known as La Vigilia (Italian: "the vigil"). Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Christmas Eve, December 24, is the day before Christmas Day, the celebrated birthday of Jesus.

It is a meal that typically consists of seven different seafood dishes. Seafood is any Sea Animal or Seaweed that is served as Food, or is suitable for eating particularly saltwater animals such 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. Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE)

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Tradition and symbolism

The tradition of eating seafood on Christmas Eve dates from the medieval Catholic tradition of abstinence--in this case, refraining from the consumption of meat or milk products--on Fridays and specific holy days. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". For Roman Catholics, Fasting is the reduction of one's intake of food to one full meal a day As no meat or butter could be used, observant Catholics would instead eat fish, typically fried in oil.

There are many hypotheses for what the number "7" relates to, one being the number of Sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. Another theory is that seven is a number representing perfection: the traditional Biblical number for divinity is three, and for Earth is four, and the combination of these numbers, seven, represents God on Earth, or Jesus Christ. Numerology is any of many Systems Traditions or Beliefs in a mystical or Esoteric relationship between Numbers and physical

A typical Christmas Eve meal

The components to the meal are similar for most families as there are always some seven combinations of anchovies, sardines, dried salt cod, smelts, eels, squid, octopus, shrimp, mussels, oysters, and clams. The anchovies are a family ( Engraulidae) of small common salt-water fish For the hide and seek-like game see Hide and seek. Sardines, or pilchards, are a group of several types of small Oily Cod is the common name for the Genus Gadus of Fish, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name of a variety Smelts are a Family, Osmeridae, of small Anadromous Fish. They are common in the North American Great Lakes and in the lakes True eels ( Anguilliformes) are an order of Fish, which consists of four suborders 19 families 110 Genera and approximately 600 Squid are marine Cephalopods of the order Teuthida, which comprises around 300 species The True shrimp are swimming decapod Crustaceans classified in the Infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh The common name mussel is used for members of several different families of Clams or Bivalve Molluscs, from both saltwater and freshwater habitats The common name oyster is used for a number of different groups of Bivalve Mollusks most of which live in marine habitats or Brackish water. Clam is a word which can be used for all some or only a few Species of Bivalve Mollusks the word is a Common name which has In the mixes are pastas, vegetables, baked or fried kale patties, baked goods, and the pride-filled homemade wine. Pasta ( Italian for "dough" is a generic term for Italian variants of Noodles. The term " vegetable " generally means the edible parts of Plants The definition of the word is traditional rather than Scientific, however Wine is an Alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of Grape juice

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Squid is a popular food in many parts of the world In many of the languages around the Mediterranean sea, squid are called 'calamari' (singular 'calamaro' Smelts are a Family, Osmeridae, of small Anadromous Fish. They are common in the North American Great Lakes and in the lakes The common name oyster is used for a number of different groups of Bivalve Mollusks most of which live in marine habitats or Brackish water. True shrimp are swimming decapod Crustaceans classified in the Infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh A scallop (ˈskɒləp or /ˈskæləp/ is a marine Bivalve Mollusk of the family Pectinidae. Clam is a word which can be used for all some or only a few Species of Bivalve Mollusks the word is a Common name which has Cod is the common name for the Genus Gadus of Fish, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name of a variety True eels ( Anguilliformes) are an order of Fish, which consists of four suborders 19 families 110 Genera and approximately 600 Baccalà is Italian for salted Cod, known in English as Clipfish. Kale or Borecole is a form of Cabbage ( Brassica oleracea Acephala Group) green in color in which the central leaves do not
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