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An article on the History of Santa Claus from the St. Nicholas Center; The History of Santa Claus and Father Christmas; Research guides for Thomas Nast and Santa Claus at The Morristown & Morris Township Public Library, NJ "The Knickerbockers Rescue Santa Claus: 'Claas Schlaschenschlinger' from James Kirke Paulding's The Book of Saint Nicholas ...
"Santa Claus" derives from his Dutch name, "Sint Nikolaas," or "Sinter Klaas" for short. Dutch immigrants began to spread knowledge of the saint to the American public in the late 1700s.
Long before he became Santa Claus, St. Nicholas was born in a Greek village in 270 A.D., as Quartz reported. That means he's a whopping 1,752 years old now! That means he's a whopping 1,752 years ...
Modern dictionaries consider the terms Father Christmas and Santa Claus to be synonymous. [98] [99] The respective characters are now to all intents and purposes indistinguishable, although some people are still said to prefer the term 'Father Christmas' over 'Santa Claus', nearly 150 years after Santa Claus's arrival in England. [1]
The name 'Santa Claus' can be traced back to the Dutch Sinterklaas ('Saint Nicholas'). Nicholas was a 4th-century Greek bishop of Myra , a city in the Roman province of Lycia , whose ruins are 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from modern Demre in southwest Turkey.
How old is Santa Claus? We've got the answer! Find out Old Saint Nicholas's age, as well as how old Mrs. Claus really is. Plus, more details about the origins of Santa's name and birthday.
Mrs. Santa Claus is mentioned by name in the pages of the Yale Literary Magazine in 1851, where the student author (whose name is given only as "A. B.") writes of the appearance of Santa Claus at a Christmas party: [I]n bounded that jolly, fat and funny old elf, Santa Claus. His array was indescribably fantastic.
According to historical records, Santa is real.He's real in the sense that he was an actual person. Otherwise known as Saint Nicholas, his story goes all the way back to the 3rd century.