Question: "On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, A partridge in a pear tree..." According to a Roman Catholic symbolic interpretation, who does the partridge represent in the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas?
Bonus question: What does the pear tree represent?
Answer: Jesus
Bonus answer: The cross upon which Jesus died
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