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St. Nicholas

NOUN
  1. a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century)

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  • In America, gift giving at Christmastime began in the 17th century when early Dutch settlers introduced St. Nicholas to the New World. St.
  • Compare the following three texts — the previously-mentioned Passio sancti Pelagii by Hroswitha; Filius Getronis, a twelfth-century play of St. Nicholas from St. - Benoit-sur-Loire; and the tale of the snow child (a fabliau and several other retellings throughout the period). back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • Every year by December 6 - St. Nicholas' Day - the exterior of the historic Georgian-style home is swagged with laurel and windows are filled with candlelight.
  • 2622 Superior Ave. He suffered an "incapacitating" ankle injury and was taken to St. Nicholas Hospital for treatment. The Sheboygan Press Latest Headlines
  • The soldiery of the Rhinegrave have mutinied, plucked down the banners of their master, and set up an independent ensign, which they call the pennon of St. Nicholas, under which they declare that they will maintain peace with God, and war with all the world. Anne of Geierstein
  • Here _were_ six if not eight parish churches: namely, St. John's, (which was a rectory, and seems to have been swallowed up by the sea about the year 1540;) St. Martin's, St. Nicholas's, and St. Peter's, which were likewise rectories; and St. Leonard's and All Saints, which were impropriated. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831
  • Broder's "vacillating" Democrats want the religous Islamic victory mosque, because now the flip-flopping Democrats are religous conscience, and Republicans just say No. What an outrage that our government has put roadblocks in the path of its own citizens trying rebuild their beloved Church destroyed by Islamic extremists, St. Nicholas Greek LJWorld.com stories: News
  • There was one church in Yarmouth, St. Nicholas's Church, which was dedicated to St. Benedict.
  • SKETCHY SANTAS hings began innocently enough in fourth-century Turkey, when a wealthy bishop named St. Nicholas became legendary for helping other people. Sketchy Santas
  • A chancellor of York, Thomas de Farnylaw, leaves books, bound and unbound, to the Vicar of Waghen; a volume of sermons and a "quire" to the church of Embleton; and a Bible and Concordance to be chained in the north porch of St. Nicholas 'Church, Newcastle, "for common use, for the good of the soul of his lord William of Middleton" (1378). Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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