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Mariann Edgar was born in 1959 in Summit, New Jersey, [1] to a Swedish-American mother, Ann Björkman (1931–2024), and an American father, William Edgar. [2] [3] She grew up in the Flanders section of Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, attending West Morris Mount Olive High School, and also in Colorado, following her parents' divorce.
Sinterklaas is the basis for the North American figure of Santa Claus. It is often claimed that during the American War of Independence, the inhabitants of New York City, a former Dutch colonial town (New Amsterdam), reinvented their Sinterklaas tradition, as Saint Nicholas was a symbol of the city's non-English past. [55]
Sinterklaas wears a bishop's robes including a red cape and mitre and rides a white horse named Schimmel or Amerigo in the Netherlands and Slecht Weer Vandaag (bad weather today) in Flanders. [22] The town of Sint-Niklaas in East Flanders has a statue of Sinterklaas in front of its town hall.
In late medieval England, on Saint Nicholas Day parishes held Christmastide "boy bishop" celebrations. As part of this celebration, youths performed the functions of priests and bishops, and exercised rule over their elders. Today, Saint Nicholas is still celebrated as a great gift-giver in several Western European and Central European countries.
Earl Kenneth Mario Fernandes [2] (born September 21, 1972) is a Roman Catholic prelate who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Columbus in Ohio since 2022.. Fernandes is the first Indian-American bishop of the Latin Church in the United States, the first person of color to serve as the bishop of the Diocese of Columbus, [3] and the youngest diocesan bishop in the United States.
Dorothy Kerin (28 November 1889 – 26 January 1963) was an English Christian visionary and healer, and the subject of at least twelve books. Many testimonials show the impact she made on people's lives and wellbeing, [1] one of which was by Marina Alexandrovna Chavchavadze, a Russian princess and long-time companion, who later wrote a book about her life with Kerin.
Het Sinterklaasjournaal is a Dutch children's television series that has been broadcast every year since 2001 during the Sinterklaas period.The program is a fictional, children news program, in which the adventures of Sinterklaas and his Petes during their stay in the Netherlands are told.
Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire.