The Christmas Eve Fountain of Wine

According to a legendary chronicle from the town of Thann in Alsace, the local fountain miraculously flowed with sweet spiced wine for exactly one hour during the Christmas Midnight Mass in the year 1482. While historians suspect a wealthy local nobleman secretly piped his private cellars into the public square as a grand holiday gesture, the townspeople believed it was a divine reward for their piety, leading to a long-standing tradition of sharing mulled wine in the square after mass.