Chas Veshalom to say so? Look, you can try to prove it false. But it’s pretty clear that it’s true. There was even a very plausible explanation given on the first page. The Minhag wasn’t based on what was mentioned in the Seforim. Gedolim saw a Minhag and tried to give a reason. Had they known that the Christian practice predated the Jewish one by over a millenium, they probably would have come out strongly against it.
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