When is Saint Nicholas' birthday anyway ?!?

Answer 1

Though the exact date is not known, it is believed to have occurred between AD 260 and 280. The place, Patara, can be historically grounded.
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The Saint's day is the 6th of December, so it may be argued that's Saint Nicholas' "birthday."

Saint Nicholas was transformed into Santa Claus in the United States. First "John Pintard, influential patriot and antiquarian, who founded the New York Historical Society in 1804, promoted St. Nicholas as patron saint of both society and city. In January 1809, Washington Irving joined the society and on St. Nicholas Day that year he published the satirical fiction, Knickerbocker's History of New York, with numerous references to a jolly St. Nicholas character. "

Then: "The jolly elf image received a big boost in 1823, from a poem destined to become immensely popular, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," now better known as "The Night Before Christmas." and ""A Visit from St. Nicholas" became a defining American holiday classic. No matter who wrote it, the poem has had enormous influence on the Americanization of St. Nicholas. "

Next was " In 1863, political cartoonist Thomas Nast began a series of annual black-and-white drawings in Harper's Weekly, based on the descriptions found in the poem and Washington Irving's work. These drawings established a rotund Santa with flowing beard, fur garments, and an omnipresent clay pipe."

Finally "the saint's name shifted to Santa Claus—a natural phonetic alteration from the German Sankt Niklaus and Dutch Sinterklaas."

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The real question here is what do you consider to be the truth? The one thing I will never understand is why parents would perpetuate the existence of Santa Claus only to "break the truth" to the children that he never was real ... But what exactly is the truth? The truth is that Santa Claus is real - Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children was just as real as you and I - it was his gift of kindness that grew and spread throughout the world which made him larger than life and it was his love of the children that has remained to this day - in many forms throughout all the world it was that gift that had taken hold and has breathed life into him and has made him whole.. Santa Claus is actually the derivative of " Sinter Klaas " the Dutch form of " Saint Nicholas " Santa Claus lives Although you may not see him in the flesh he will always be there - and that gift of love will be passed on to your children's children just like your parents passed it on to you ... and Santa will live once again Santa is more than just a myth - more than an image Santa is a representation of what the true meaning of Christmas is all about Santa is about the children Santa is about one man's wish that the birth of one child should be celebrated not just for that one child but for all children - and it is that legacy that lives on to this day A legacy of love I understand that it is a sign of "growing up" to want to put away all of the things that we once cherished when we were younger... boys will put away their Transformers and little girls will put away their Barbies and it is this reason that there are those that would say that Santa doesn't exist - to feel grown up but he will always be there The irony of the situation that those who say that there is no Santa will one day have children of their own -- and Santa will be there to make his rounds for them and their children will all share in this love A special kind of love that is given from loving parents to their child Santa is alive and well Santa will outlive us all and I could not be anymore happy because I would not want to live in a world where there is no Santa a world without a Santa Claus is a world without love and that is what Christmas is all about: love *** Bumble smilez** *** That was my official answer, the one that I tell everyone when asked this question... but seriously, you answered your own question when you stated how devestated you were to find out what you thought to be the truth.... do you really want to tell your children Santa does not exist? Santa Claus was indeed a real person and the reason that we even celebrate Christmas at all has just as much to do with the real Saint Nicholas as it does the birth of Jesus, for it was his idea to share in that birth a legacy of gift giving that has carried on to this day ... If you insist upon " telling your children the truth " than you can share with them the story of the patron saint of children, beggars, and thieves who decided that the birth of one child was important enough that he shared that birthday with all children Santa is about the children, and he will always be about the children ... instead of remembering how hurt you were to find out "the truth" , remember the joy you had when Santa was real - for it is those memories that will last and for your children's children as well *** Listen to the lyrics of this song.... I believe it will help you to remember what Santa is about ***

Answer 5

Nicholas Saint (St. Claus), a highly popular saint of the Roman Catholic Church, and reverenced with still greater devotion by the Russian Church, which regards him as a special patron, was one of the early bishops of Mysia, in Lysia. The precise date of his episcopate is a subject of much controversy. Of his personal history hardly anything is certainly known, and the great popularity of the devotion to him wrought through his intercession. He is regarded in Catholic countries as a special patron of the young, and particularly of scholars. On the vigil of his feast, which is held on December 6, (My mom puts up here tree on this day calling it "St.Nicks" day) a person in the appearance and costume of a bishop assembles the children of a family or a school and distributes among them, to the good, gilt nuts, sweetmeats, and other little presents as the rewards of good conduct; to the naughty ones, the redoubtable punishment klanbauf. The supposed relics of St. Nicholas were conveyed from the East to Bari, in the kingdom of Naples, toward the close of the eleventh century." Thus the fable is a part of the old relic-worshiping traditions of a corrupt church. The nearness of his feast, in December, to the Christmas festival, led to associating the saint and the present-giving idea with the feast of December 25. We must admit, in the light of the Bible, that it is very foolish and wrong to teach little children the tales of Santa Claus. "Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Answer 6

chrismas day because i watched santa clause is coming to town like a million times

Answer 7

well i gave a question about him .after wards ithinki forgot his birth day
now a days people forget once own birth day .what to talk of some one elses.