Nicholas
Posted By admin on 17 stycznia 2011
December 6 bestows the gifts of children, often in the night of the 6th 5th backing up presents under the pillow or placed them in wool, with a large sock. Feast of Nicholas is known around the world under the names: Santa Clause (USA), Babbo Natale (Italy), Heilige Nicolaus (Germany), Mikulas (Czech Republic), Julemanden (Denmark)
Santa Claus
Santa Claus was born in Lycia in Asia Minor about the year 280th Already in his youth was marked by devotion to his mother’s brother Nicholas so Patary bishop to ordain him presbyter. Nicholas’ parents died around the year 300 during the plague, which at that time struck Licia. The resulting drop in Santa earmarked to help poor and needy. A legend says that the gifts He gave anonymously away from tradition plant a gifts under the pillow.
Although ordained as Bishop of Myra remained extremely modest man of all their goods distributed to the poor. He died Dec. 6 in about 345 AD
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