Comments on: Top 10 Facts about Saint Nicholas

By: Kelb

Kelb — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:40:56 +0000

The elves were added fairly recently, along with the concept that he lives in his workshop at the North Pole. These parts of the legend are attributed to Bavarian illustrator Thomas Nast in the latter half of the 19th century.
http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm

By: Geneva

Geneva — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:56:56 +0000

Santa Claus is from Pagan/Norse mythology… Just throwin that out there.

By: GeorgeCarlinsGhost

GeorgeCarlinsGhost — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:13:33 +0000

The Catholic church and its followers should be utterly ashamed at allowing one of their best known saints to be exploited by the Coca Cola drinks corporation for monetary gain and encouraging the ill-health of children (and adults); the same corporation which initially used amphetamine drugs (cocaine) in their drink to encourage and promote the addiction of the product.

By: Rose

Rose — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:45:35 +0000

how does he get there to the netherlands?

By: Agdirgia

Agdirgia — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:31:27 +0000

St. Nicholas was not Roman Catholic. Not even the Catholic Church believes that. He was and Eastern saint. There was no difference between Catholic and Orthodox back then, but he was of the Eastern Rite, not the Roman one.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:03:23 +0000

They’re saying that ‘St Nic being Santa’s helper’ is the usual explanation in the U.S. tradition. I think they’re making the point that generally in the U.S. tradition the relationship between St Nic and Santa isn’t clearly understood, and hence why they can be mistakenly thought of as two different people.

By: Name

Name — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:51:09 +0000

"American Santa Claus, as well as the Anglo-Canadian and British Father Christmas, derive from these legends. “Santa Claus” is itself derived from the Dutch "

as a canadian, this leaves me confused, and slightly offended
take this opportunity to ask if you're aware that the america's are a series of continents in the western hemisphere, and by being a canadian, i am every bit as american as those in the united states.
Anglo Canadian?!?! wtf does that mean? Im from toronto, never head that. heard of father christmas, but im under the impression that is a rather old, mostly dead term, and that the dead guy is just called santa clause now.

By: COOL KID

COOL KID — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:01:56 +0000

SHUT UP UGLY

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:34:11 +0000

ooo ya

By: rcgc

rcgc — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:41:18 +0000

rjcb3 is dunb and wat are you asking well not dunb but ya