2007-12-20 10:38:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Around 280 A.D. in Patara, near Myra in modern-day Turkey.
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
2007-12-20 10:42:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Actually Jesus wasn't born on 12/25. He was born in the Spring. Look at the words from Silent Night. Sheperds don't let their flocks of sheep out in December. I am sorry to burst your bubble. Santa Claus is a fake unfortunately!
2007-12-20 10:45:07 · answer #2 · answered by Karli P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Santa Claus was born on the 32nd of December.
2007-12-20 10:46:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The wintry climate solstice answer isn't real because of the fact the solstice happens on the twenty 2d - twenty third. this is infrequently ever later than the twenty third, so it does not make experience. additionally the argument against it because of the fact it could have been too chilly for human beings to shepard sheep, and blah blah blah, is in all probability unfaithful besides. The variety of Bethelam is decently on the factor of the equator. The winters there infrequently ever get chilly sufficient to realize freezing. i'm no longer an authority on herding sheep, even though it continues to be accessible that even in December, somebody grow to be nevertheless herding sheep. so some distance as though this is the quite date, there is info for it, and against it. you're able to do the study itself, yet pupils can't even instruct what 365 days he grow to be born in, so a precise date is indeterminable. This date acts greater of a placeholder if something. In end, it ought to be the date, yet you have a a million/365 possibility of that being superb.
2016-11-04 04:10:31 · answer #4 · answered by mccumber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus wasn't. He was either born in the fall or the spring. Shepherds wouldn't have flocks out at night in the winter and the star wouldn't have been noticeable.
Santa Claus - up for grabs as to the actual date, his mum didn't leave us a note.
2007-12-20 10:43:51 · answer #5 · answered by Aravah 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Scholars agree that Christ was born around April 17th. Christmas started as a winter celebration, then wound up being a convenient time at the end of the year for retailers.
As far as Santa's birthday. was somewhere around 1843.
2007-12-20 10:52:51 · answer #6 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus IS Santa Claus, they are the same person.
2007-12-20 10:45:58 · answer #7 · answered by carnival queen 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus wasn't born on DEC. 25. Best estimate by religious scholars puts his birth sometime around the spring.
2007-12-20 10:45:32 · answer #8 · answered by ghostwolf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think Santa is Jesus, just the senior citizen version.
2007-12-20 10:46:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was born on December 25th too. So was the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy and the Boogeyman.
2007-12-20 10:41:53 · answer #10 · answered by ►solo 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋