Santa Claus: Uncovered
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Created By: kinet
Last Modified: 06/20/06
Summary: Where did he come from? Who is he? Fact or fiction? There is a great deal of evidence to support the fact there is or was a person who filled the role of Santa Claus, and many ideas about his origins. From St. Nicholas to the giant elf in the red suit, the tales are varied and vast. Wherever he came from, and whoever he is the fact is Santa represents the Spirit of Christmas in all his forms.

Didi you know... ? 

 

As the story goes the first presents left by Santa Claus was the gold he left for three girls who needed the money for their wedding doweries? They had hung their stockings on the mantel to dry. 


Versions of Santa

Versions of Santa

Summary: Bishop St. Nicholas, early American St. Nick, & American Santa, from Santa Claus Comes to America, by Caroline Singer & Cyrus Baldridge, Alfred Knopf, 1942
From: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=35

Santa Protrait

Santa Protrait

From: http://www.jfpl.org/nast.htm

Did you know...?

In the movie: "Miracle on 34th Street" one of the main characters proves that Santa Claus actually exists because the United States Postal service recognizes his name?  


Conventionally, Santa Claus is portrayed as a kindly, round-bellied, merry, bespectacled white man in a red coat trimmed with white fur, with a long white beard. On Christmas Eve, he rides in his sleigh pulled by flying reindeer from house to house to give presents to children. To enter the house, Santa Claus comes down the chimney and exits through the fireplace. During the rest of the year he lives together with his wife Mrs. Claus and his elves manufacturing toys. Some modern depictions of Santa (often in advertising and popular entertainment) will show the elves and Santa's workshop as more of a processing and distribution facility, ordering and receiving the toys from various toy manufacturers from across the world. His home is usually given as either the North Pole in the United States (Alaska), northern Canada, Korvatunturi in Finnish Lapland, Dalecarlia in Sweden, or Greenland, depending on the tradition and country. Sometimes Santa's home is in Caesarea when he is identified as Saint Basil.





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