2006-11-23 03:45:37 · 27 answers · asked by Kevid T 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Yes
2006-11-23 03:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by ppkuehl 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure!
Actually he has lived in Smyrna and he was or Greek or Turk. It is awful I forget because this is one of the things about what they are fighting all the time! The coffee, the Hagios Nicolaios...
But honestly he was very gentle with children and it is even possible he saved some.
He was also a bishop and not that fat, I bet...
He his called Claus as it is the way the Nordics and the Germans say Nicolaios and it is there that he used to start his journey. Don't ask ME why!
To the French kiddies, he is Saint Nicolas and he brings toys and sweets on the 6 of December...
Some of them have the good luck to have a visitation of both.
But their Santa Claus is called Père Noel =Father Xmas.
I am not sure how Nicolaios is written, though...
2006-11-23 12:13:52 · answer #2 · answered by klaartedubois 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
A famous letter from Virgina O'Hanlon to the editorial of The New York Sun, first printed in 1897.
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
2006-11-23 11:55:09 · answer #3 · answered by party_pam 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe that the Santa Claus you are thinking of which is the Marketed Santa Claus is not real. He was imagined to make money. I do believe that Kris Kringle is real he was a Priest who gave toys to children. The true gift giver of Christmas is God who sent his son on this day, so he would later die for our sins.
2006-11-23 12:26:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes and No, the Human Imagination Created Santa Claus. he exists in movies, cartoons and in our imagination.
2006-11-23 12:01:46 · answer #5 · answered by sfumato1002 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes! I do believe in Santa Claus!
I do I do I do believe In Santa Clause!
2006-11-23 11:49:24 · answer #6 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, but he is based on a real person. He lived in Myra (which is now Turkey) in about 300 A.D. He became a priest at the age of 17. He was very wealthy, therefore decided to give away his wealth in the form of gifts to the needy, especially children. He became St. Nicholas after his death, when he was elevated to sainthood. As far as his real name I don't know what it was.
2006-11-23 12:26:31 · answer #7 · answered by Gone With The Wind 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Santa Clause is real in our thoughts and spirits.
2006-11-23 11:53:29 · answer #8 · answered by Curious Person 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, if you believe in it, it suppose to be real.. But in reality, no one knows and some people are not believe in Santa, cause they think its not true. Anyway, fire up our Christmas spirit..... Peace
2006-11-23 11:53:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. A man named Chris Cringle (Saint Nick, And sorry If it's spelled wrong I don't know how to spell it really) Was a Priest from England who gave toys to the poor.
I think that's how it went.
2006-11-23 11:50:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋