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First, Santa spoiler alert! And, parents, you know what we mean. When Melissa Marion's 8-year-old son, Johnny, came home from school saying that a classmate had said Santa wasn’t real, she knew ...
Parents, please be advised that the following story contains frank, adult discussion about Santa. (Whatever the experts say, we're not taking any chances with putting ourselves on the naughty list.)
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.
Or if they say that this is the birthday of the sun, well He Himself is the Sun of Justice. [ 32 ] In a mid fifth century Christmas sermon, Pope Leo I rebukes those "who hold the pernicious belief that our celebration today seems to derive ... from, as they say, the rising of the 'new sun'."
An example of a public and private cooperative venture is the opportunity for expatriate and local children and parents to receive postmarked mail and greeting cards from Santa during December in the Finnish Embassy in Beijing, People's Republic of China, [99] Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, and the People's Republic of China Postal ...
Here's a history lesson on ol' Saint Nick. How old is Santa? Santa Claus' origins date back to about 280 A.D. when St. Nicholas was born, the History Channel reports. This would make Santa ...
The first known English personification of Christmas was associated with merry-making, singing and drinking. A carol attributed to Richard Smart, Rector of Plymtree in Devon from 1435 to 1477, has 'Sir Christemas' announcing the news of Christ's birth and encouraging his listeners to drink: "Buvez bien par toute la compagnie, / Make good cheer and be right merry, / And sing with us now ...
That importance goes for parents as well as for kids, Hess adds. "Santa presents to parents the ability to think that next year will be good," he says, pointing to today's constant barrage of bad ...