THE HISTORY OF SANTA CLAUS
ST.Nicholas was a bishop who lived in the fourth century in a place called Myra in Asia Minor [now called turkey]. He was very rich. He was also very kind man and a reputation for helping the poor and giving secret gifts to those who needed it .There are several legends about St. Nicholas although we don't know if any of them are true .
The most famous story about St. Nicholas tells how the custom of stockings to put present in first started !It goes like this :
There was a poor man . He was so poor that he did not have enough money to get his children married. One night Nicholas secretly dropped a bag of gold down to the chimney and into the house . The bag fell into the stockings that had been hung by the fire to dry . This repeated later also by Nicholas. Finally , determined to discover the person who had given him money . the old man secretly hid by the fire eye
ST.Nicholas was a bishop who lived in the fourth century in a place called Myra in Asia Minor [now called turkey]. He was very rich. He was also very kind man and a reputation for helping the poor and giving secret gifts to those who needed it .There are several legends about St. Nicholas although we don't know if any of them are true .
The most famous story about St. Nicholas tells how the custom of stockings to put present in first started !It goes like this :
There was a poor man . He was so poor that he did not have enough money to get his children married. One night Nicholas secretly dropped a bag of gold down to the chimney and into the house . The bag fell into the stockings that had been hung by the fire to dry . This repeated later also by Nicholas. Finally , determined to discover the person who had given him money . the old man secretly hid by the fire eye
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