Good King Wenceslas looked out...

...on the feast of Stephen. And that's today folks. We may call this day Boxing Day, but long before it took that name it was and still is St. Stephen's Day. Stephen's claim to fame is that he is acknowledged by the Church as the first Christian martyr, being stoned to death in around 34-35 A.D. for the blasphemy of suggesting that Jesus's teaching would eventually supplant the law of Moses. Wenceslas, by the way, was a real person - he was ruler of Bohemia from 921-935, though a Duke rather than a King.