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rumor that Santa is "born" in 1931 by a father's advertising Coca Cola (Mr. Sundbolm this) and that his reindeer are a figment of imagination of that advertising.

In reality there are traces of a fat man dressed in red with a white beard and riding a white horse since 1863 ... was simply called Santa Claus.
An early postcards exist in the typical Santa Claus 1886.
In practice, the Coca Cola has just taken up, amplified and popularized what is already there.

Cispio But who would I'm Santa Claus?

would be Saint Nicholas, protector of children and students. The legend says that Mr. Nicholas (Bishop of Myra in Lycia in the fourth century) was born in Patara, Turkey, from a rich family, he helped a family in financial difficulties, thus saving three girls from prostitution. Mr. Nicholas dropped at night from the fireplace, where they were hung out to dry delel socks, three bags of gold coins to give the girls a gift that would allow them to marry.
This legend is also accredited in the Divine Comedy (Purgatory, XX, 31-33).

The legend was later adapted to be able to relate to children ... the threat of prostitution was replaced by simple hunger and so St. Nicholas brought bags to needy families with food, always delivered through the chimney.

So Santa Claus aka Saint Nicholas, aka Santa Claus (from Sinter Klass in Dutch) became in the popular imagination the bearer of gifts par excellence. Only that he went around the back of a donkey and not reindeer-drawn sleigh ... it seems that the latter are actually been invented by Coca Cola.

And gnomes / goblins / elves?

Well ... those were clearly taken by Nordic traditions. Perhaps there was no need to say:-P Anyway

your mother-in-law has nothing against Santa Claus, after all it is a nice fat .. and strangely enough even if it comes from a Christian tradition has been repeatedly repudiated by the Church. Mysterious mysteries !!!!!

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The truth about Santa Claus Merry Christmas (Part Two)

Benebenebene (as would Mr. Beverly Leslie) ... go ahead! Here are two noticine on gifts and on the choice of the date of 25 December. The choice

Date:
According to Christian tradition December 25 is the birthday of Jesus but .... is all wrong here. Reasoning: If the Immaculate Conception took place on December 8 ... Mrs. Mary gave us only a few days to bring their pregnancies to term? Okay fantasy, mythology etc etc but it really is a little hard to believe. Or maybe it took him a year and broken? O_o
Eventually the Pope Julius I chose this convention to date in 337 AD as a Roman holiday was the day of the birthday of the sun (see the myth of the god Mithra and the like). As the old ways of the pagans were (and are) die hard, the Church deliberately chose to turn this holiday and those related to it (like the winter solstice) so as to make it appear that the common people was actually celebrating the birth of the son of their God and not some other weird demonic deity.
Small note: the Roman Church of the East decided instead to celebrate the birth day of Epiphany (January 6).

Gifts:
Even this custom comes from ancient pagan traditions of Europe. In fact, more or less all the people were in the habit of making symbolic offerings to the gods during the days dedicated to them (which obviously varies from people to people). At the Celts and Germanic peoples also had some in use also offer gifts to the spirits of dead ancestors, consisting especially in food.
Even the ancient Romans, during the Saturnalia (Latin Saturnalia: festival dedicated to the 'settlement in the temple of the god Saturn. It is celebrated every year, originally for a single day, around Dec. 17, then, in the imperial age, to four, five or more days), exchanged gifts (particularly honey, figs and twigs of various plants considered sacred). The Romans called these gifts "Stren" apparently in honor of the Goddess strenuous, an ancient Sabine deity of strength and health.