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answer what do you believe? Saint Nicholas and the Origin of Santa Claus?
answer what do you believe? Saint Nicholas and the Origin of Santa Claus?
St. Nicholas, lover of the poor and patron saint of children, is a model of how Christians are meant to live. A bishop, Nicholas put Jesus Christ at the center of his life, his ministry, his entire existence. Families, churches, and schools are embracing true St Nicholas traditions as one way to claim the true center of Christmas—the birth of Jesus. for the full story... http://www.stnicholascenter.org/
What do you believe? In Santa Claus the patron saint of the poor and children? or is he satan? Please read the background in link provided. WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
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- Anonymous8 years ago
St nick obviously christmas is all based on religion the orgin of santa makes no sense where as a man bringing presents to kinds who don't have anything makes more sense its all christmas is relgion that's the background on christmas
Source(s): Went to catholic school for 5 years - 8 years ago
Err...What is the question? Santa aka Saint Nicholas was probably real.
But it's more like his name was taken and put on one of the pre-existing winter spirits that existed in eastern and middle europe. "Winter Father", "Snow Father", they were all kinda grumpy old, bearded men on sleighs that punished the bad with a bundle of birch rods or worse (a metaphor for easy death in severe winter).
Another version were the goat-feeted, furry and horned, very scary Perchten or Krampus, which still exist in Austria and are seen as a kind of helper of Nicholas, run around and beat people. (Yes, really. Masked, drunk "devils" beat people up on the 5th of December.)
Christianity took that myth and altered it to their purpose. Where there were the furry devils, Nicholas was seen as a benevolent counterpart. Where there was a male old winter spirit, he was given a nicer aspect of "rewarding the good" and called Nicholas.