what story behind santa claus?

Question

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Answer 1

THE TRUE STORY OF SANTA CLAUS

If we should wake on the sixth of December and find our stockings full of candy and toys we should think that the ruddy old fellow who comes down the chimney has lost his wits and arrived about three weeks too soon. But his arrival would seem exactly on time to children in other parts of the world. For the feast of Saint Nicholas is the sixth of December, and how he became the patron saint of the day of the Saint of saints, the Christ – Child, is a story.

It is the story of a story. And when we say that it is true we shall remember that truth lives in the region of dreams. We shall be true to a glorious legend and to the way that legend has come down to us. Truth here consists in knowing that Santa Claus does come down the chimney and fills our stockings. If we do not believe that truth, we are lost souls and beauty and poetry, the only real truth, means nothing.

Nicholas was an actual person. Though he is the most popular saint in the calendar, not excepting St. Christopher and St. Francis, we know little about the man to whom so many lovely deeds, human and miraculous, have been ascribed. He was bishop of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, in the first part of the fourth century of the Christian era. Asia Minor is far away from reindeer and Santa Claus, but the world of faith and fable is small and ideas travel far if they have centuries of time for their journey round the world. And Asia Minor is the cradle of all Christian ideas.........

Oh it is a big story running into several pages. Please read it from web site -http://www.thehollandring.com/truestory.shtml

Answer 2

Santa Claus's name is based off of Saint Nicholas, whom the Dutch called "Sinter Klaus," a patron saint from the Netherlands who would leave gold in people's shoes, which they left on their doorsteps. He would do this around December 5 or 6, as it has been told. However, this is the only slight resemblance Sinter Klaus has with whom we know as Santa Claus today. Sinter Klaus was very lean (with no bowl-full-of-jelly belly), wore tradition religious attire (not a red snow suit), and walked around town rather than travel from rooftop to rooftop by means of a sleigh and reindeer. He lived no more north than the Netherlands, and was never married to any "Mrs. Klaus."

Santa's image and legend actually came from the Pagan god, Thor. Thor is represented as an elderly, kindly man with a long white beard and a heavy build. His element is fire, and thus his color is red. The thunder was said to be the sound of his rolling chariot, pulled by two white goats named Cracker and Gnasher. He fought the giants of ice and snow, and became known as the Yule god (Yule being the holiday Christmas was fashioned after in the 300's B.C.E.). He is said to live in a palace among the icebergs in "Northland," and protects people as a cheerful god. The fireplace is sacred to him, and he would drop down chimneys into his element: fire.

Answer 3

Santa was this big jolly fool that had many wives and hundreds of children who one day said he had enough of the life with is many wives so he moved to the north pole, no thats not on the top of the world, or in canada, not even north america as many people beleive , but thats right ; antartica. he bread reindeer that had migrated from austrailla and had taught the polar bears, sea otters, penguins and whales to make toys. there were no elves involved at all, its too damn cold there for them. once the animals had built a half a billion toys, santa built his sleigh, loading the sleigh was going to take a year so. one day when he was wandering through the snows and glaciers of this new place he stumbled apon a golden tusk from the very wise woolie mammath, the only one that had survived the ice-age. as he rubbed the snow of the tusk it started to glow. he wished he new what this was all about. "Poof" a magical gingerbread man appeared and said" You dumbass you just used up one of your three wishes. Now hurry up and make your other two, i'm freezing out here." so sanata wished the toys were in the sleigh, "poof" they were, then he wished the reindeer could fly and pull the sled, "poof" they were and did. then every year on the the coldest night of the year , which just happened to be the 25th of december, he got in his sleigh and gave the toys out to only the richest children in the world. you ask why.... because he never gave a damn about the hundreds of children of his own, the snows and the glaciers of the north pole had given him heart and soul along with cheer... Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night

Answer 4

there is a story that Saint Nicholas gave three bags of gold to a poor man's daughters so they could marry. this person was a Saint and became beneficial to others over the years eventually becoming Santa Claus

Answer 5

The story below is what we were told in The Netherlands and are still celebrating Saint Nicolas December the 5th. His birthday is actually December the 6th.

Santa Claus and Saint Nicolas are the same individual.

http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~erik/sint/sint.html#explanation

Answer 6

saint nicolas braught pressents to all kids back in the day