Santa Clause ???

Question

How did he come to become apart of Christmas. Can some one please tell me as much as possible. I want to know the orgins.

Answer 1

Santa Claus is real because he was already declared a saint. Therefore, if he is a saint, he can perform miracles such as giving gifts to a mass number of good children

Answer 2

Santa Claus (no "e") is from the Dutch name Sinterklaas, or St. Nicholas. He was a bishop in the 4th century who was famed for his generous gifts to the poor. When Christian missionaries went into Europe way back when, they found that the Europeans had various winter traditions about gift-giving. One was that the god Odin would have a hunting party, and if children left their shoes out with carrots and treats for Odin's horses, "Odin" would leave treats for them in return. As Christianity replaced the earlier religions, these kind of traditions remained and Father Christmas or St. Nicholas would leave treats for the children. The Santa Claus we are most familiar with is the fellow made popular in Clement Moore's famous poem "A Visit From St. NIcholas", or "Twas the Night Before Chistmas". He showed Santa Claus coming on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, coming down the chimney, and wearing the famous red suit.

Answer 3

Santa Claus was based on a real historic person, so in this sense, yes he was real. Saint Nicholas of Myra is the primary inspiration for the Christian figure of Santa Claus. He was a 4th century Christian bishop of Myra in Lycia, a province of the Byzantine Anatolia, now in Turkey. Nicholas was famous for his generous gifts to the poor, in particular presenting the three impoverished daughters of a pious Christian with dowries so that they would not have to become prostitutes. He was very religious from an early age and devoted his life entirely to Christianity.

Pre-modern representations of the gift-giver from church history and folklore merged with the British character Father Christmas to create the character known to Britons and Americans as Santa Claus. Father Christmas dates back at least as far as the 17th century in Britain, and pictures of him survive from that era, portraying him as a well-nourished bearded man dressed in a long, green, fur-lined robe. He typified the spirit of good cheer at Christmas, and was reflected in the "Ghost of Christmas Present" in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus

Answer 4

"Santa Claus" comes from "Sinterklass", the Dutch name for "Saint Nicholas".

Saint Nicholas was a bishop who helped poor people. He would bring treats to children.

Answer 5

Saint Nicolas was a real man from a long long long time ago...named as a saint for all the good things he did for the children ...

Answer 6

he is just a big slob who used to smoke cigars and farmed a lot of deers,when one day one of his deer grow a big pimple in the nose and he called him rudolph, then comes walmart called him to haul some boxes of mixed goodess to there stores,then accident came one of the boxes was so full that it burst spilling the goodess to the sidewalk full of new immigrants,they thought that what happened was a random act of kindness from this fat guy spraying some good stuff on them and they thought its a saint like goodwill,but at that time the fat guy was shouting at them to close the box but only one understands very little english and he wants to thank him so he called the fat guy santa,and he overheard the fat guy telling him to close the door but the word that he only understood from that fat guys mouth was the word close so the very much ovelwhelmed immigrant can only say this words"thank Santa close"so that my friend was the beginning of christmas


P.S. I wrought this joke this if you ever published this joke and make money without letting me part of it ill sue you just for laugh merry christmas

Answer 7

there was a man named Nichols latter saint nick he would give the children of his small village toys that he made thus Santa was born

Answer 8

There was a priest named nicklous who gave kids presents, food and stuff. I don't remember if he gave parents anything. But thats how the legend began.