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Bevat het gedicht Sancta Claus goed heylig Man ... in het Nederlands en het Engels en een afb. van St. Nicholas met bijenkorf en hond, Dec. 6th A.D. 343. Een tweede plaatje van schoorsteen met twee kousen waarin speelgoed en een roe, daarboven een goed kind en een stout kind

Saint Nioholas, who inspired the legend of Santa Claus, recounts the first Christmas and describes how a dream of Jesus led him to bring gifts to children as a way of showing them God's love.

A study of the origin of St. Nicholas in Byzantium and the expansion of his cult to western Europe and North America. It focuses on the saint's changing iconography in art and a better understanding of his historical position in our culture.

For children of all ages, here's the story of old St. Nick -- the real and surprising saint behind the legend of Santa Claus.

Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, Paulding wrote a number of Christmas tales, the best of which are brought together in this collection and which predate Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Paulding presents his stories as they have been translated from the original Dutch by a fictitious author. In them Saint Nicholas - a sixteenth-century Dutch Protestant baker - miraculously befriends those who uphold Dutch traditions and sets straight those who are either mean or given to "newfangled notions."

Saint Nicholas - Sinter Klaas - Santa Claus Read the story of Nicholas, 3rd Century Bishop of Myra, Asia Minor (present day Turkey) and how over time stories of his holy, generous life were embelished into legend. Discover additions of writer Washington Irving, minister Clement Moore, Civil War illustrator Thomas Nast, Coca-Cola artist Haddom Sundblom. Explore fascinating origins of the 12 Days of Christmas, Christmas Tree, Carols, Kris Kringle, Creche' scene, Poinsettia, Hanukkah... Relive events on Christmas throughout history, from Columbus to Valley Forge, the Great Depression to the Korean War. Travel back in time by reading Christmas Messages of U.S. Presidents, such as: Harry S Truman, just after WWII, at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, 1946: "If we as a nation, and the other nations of the world, will accept it, the star of faith will guide us into the place of peace as it did the shepherds on that day of Christ's birth long ago."

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