Boxing+Day

The holiday is named Boxing Day because the tradition of giving gifts of cash, food, clothing and other goods to the less fortunate were placed into boxes for easier transportation.

The goods were distributed based on the family needs and their services to the giver.

St Stephen of Sweden is the patron saint of horses. Boxing Day has long be associated with outdoor sports, especially horse racing and hunt

Or it may have begun with priests, who opened the church's alms boxes on the day after Christmas and distributed the contents to the poor.by the status of the worker and his relative family size, with spun cloth, leather goods, durable food supplies, tools, and whatnot being handed out.

It is to be noted that the social superiors did not receive anything back from those they played Lord Bountiful to: A gift in return would have been seen as a presumptuous act of laying claim to equality, The very thing Boxing Day was an entrenched bastion against. Boxing Day was, after all, about preserving class lines.