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Accurately dating the year Christ was born

An interview with researcher Liberato De Caro reveals that the Nativity really did happen during winter in Bethlehem just over 2,020 years ago. Mary’s visit to Elizabeth — and Mary’s reaction to Elizabeth expecting John the Baptist, and the death of Herod the Great — all point to the date of Jesus’ birth in December, 1 BC. [1]