Do you celebrate St. Nick's Day? ?

my mother always filled our shoes with little candy and we carried it on with our children having them place their shoes outside their bedroom doors and we placed candy canes and a couple little snacks or tiny toys....matchbox cars etc and then we tied bells on their shoelaces to signify that santa had been there.....it was a lot of fun and kind of the beginning of the "season" for the little ones... i think it was a german tradition....and we are catholic and some of the schools had St Nick come on Dec 6....so have fun.....

Yes I do celebrate the holiday.

History

For many centuries, Christian writers accepted that Christmas was the actual date on which Jesus was born.[11] In the early eighteenth century, scholars began proposing alternative explanations. Isaac Newton argued that the date of Christmas was selected to correspond with the winter solstice,[5] which in ancient times was marked on December 25. In 1743, German Protestant Paul Ernst Jablonski argued Christmas was placed on December 25 to correspond with the Roman solar holiday Dies Natalis Solis Invicti and was therefore a "paganization" that debased the true church.[12] In 1889, Louis Duchesne suggested that the date of Christmas was calculated as nine months after March 25, the traditional date of the conception of Jesus.[13] On the Roman calendar, March 25 was the date of the spring equinox.[14] In modern times, it is celebrated as Annunciation.[15]