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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]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
' The Great Sinterklaas Movie ') is a 2020 Dutch film directed by Lucio Messercola. The film won the Golden Film award after having sold 100,000 tickets. [1] [2] It was the tenth highest-grossing Dutch film of 2020. [3] It was Bram van der Vlugt's last appearance as Sinterklaas; the film was released two months before his death. [4] [5]
The bishop of Myra, who had succeeded Nicholas's uncle, had recently died [30] and the priests in the city had decided that the first priest to enter the church that morning would be made bishop. Nicholas went to the church to pray [ 30 ] and was therefore proclaimed the new bishop.
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José Maria Pires, 98, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí (1957–1965) and Archbishop of Paraíba (1965–1995), pneumonia. [474] Yitzhak Pundak, 104, Polish-born Israeli military officer and diplomat. [475] Syd Silverman, 85, American publisher . [476] Helli Stehle, 109, Swiss actress and radio presenter. [477]
For example, in Washington Irving's History of New York (1809), Sinterklaas was Anglicized into "Santa Claus" (a name first used in the U.S. press in 1773) [25] but lost his bishop's apparel, and was at first pictured as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat.