Sixty - Fourth Trivia Question

Question

A bit of modern folklore claims that the song's lyrics were written 

as a "catechism song" to help young Catholics learn their faith, 

at a time when practicing Catholicism was criminalized in England (1558 until 1829). 

There is no primary evidence supporting this claim, 

and no evidence that the claim is historical, 

or "anything but a fanciful modern day speculation." 

The theory is of relatively recent origin. 

It was first suggested by Canadian English teacher and hymnologist 

Hugh D. McKellar in a short article, 

 "How to Decode the Twelve Days of Christmas," published in 1979. 

In a later article published in the music journal The Hymn, 

he reiterates that the associations are his. 

The idea was further popularized by a Catholic priest, Fr. Hal Stockert, 

in an article he wrote in 1982 and posted online in 1995. 

Regardless of the origin of this idea, 

a number of Christians give meanings to the gifts.

Enumerate the Christian symbolism of the gifts in proper order.