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Boxing Day is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, St. Stephen's Day, the day after Christmas Day
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Boxing Day is also known as St. Stephen's Day (when Good King Wenceslas looked out).
'Good King Wenceslas looked out,
On the Feast of Stephen...........'
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