Young and old are waiting for him every year
With Christmas and New Year's look, he is dressed in red and his white beard is riding the bell-shaped carriage, which is driven by a long-standing group of donkeys. He enters the houses from where no one knows (and we all know) carrying that precious bag on his back full of gifts.
This is Santa Claus , the children's lover.
What is the origin of the story? What is this strange character that does not differentiate between one child and another because of the color or the element?
Baby lover
On the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and in the city of (Patara) Nicholas was born in 245 AD, and Patara is one of the main ports of (Lucia or Lecia) and has maintained its importance as a commercial center during the Roman era, says the Turkish story. There, in Patara, where the Roman Emperor's Holy See is born, this saint is born in an astral sky that easily enters the imagination of children (Santa Claus, Father of Birth, Chris Crinkle, Santa Claus or St. Nicholas).
Patara is now a very small city nestled amid green hills, frequented by tourists from everywhere in the summer for fun on Sunday, one of Turkey's longest beaches and beaches. Although the port is old-fashioned, there are some hotels and furnished apartments for tourists. As you head towards the coast, you will see the triangular archeological buildings rise above the pink-colored lead rocks,
Nicolaus lived there when he was a little boy. Near these ruins, the Roman baths, which attracted sailors and tired merchants from their long sea voyages, had left his coastal town of Patara to enter the school in Xanthus. This city is still charming with its location and monuments, Treasures by the British ambassador in the middle of the nineteenth century.
n the Xanthus, entered by Nicholas through the gate of the Roman Emperor (Vespan), he saw the first Roman theater overlooking the old tower built since the fourth century BC. On the walls of the tower there were some poems of praise in the Lycian which evoked the souls of the dead buried in the nearby cemetery Nicholas lived there, surrounded by a memorial (Lycian), testimony to the greatness and power of the Roman Empire.
There, with the spread of Christianity in the third century between the settlements and the Roman colonies in Asia Minor, the influence of Hellenistic philosophers was superior to the people. These philosophers were calling for Roman paganism, so the Christians witnessed a great persecution, especially those who refused to recognize the deity of the Roman emperor. Or burned in scenes of terrible brutality, in this atmosphere Nicholas lived in Exantos, and moved to the (Mira), one of the first Lexican cities, and today contains wonderful sculptures over rocks, and is still a broad Roman theater is clear and clear
who is he?
In Mira, Nicholas converted to Christianity, became a minister of the church, and became a bishop after his election by his followers after the death of the old bishop. Nicholas and his priests lived a life of oppression and brutality at the beginning of the fourth century AD. Constantinople, which took Christianity as the official religion of the Byzantine Empire, and Nicolaus the Bishop of Mira and its bishop was an active and active part of the first Nicosia complex which was held in 325 AD and which was concluded by the Emperor Constantine in his palace. This meeting was part of the emperor's plan to unite the new churches in his empire, Free P) Several important issues were raised, the most important of which was the expulsion of the Archbishop of Egypt (Arius) from the Church after his death by saying that Jesus Christ was a kind of superheroes only.
Nicholas was respected and loved by the first churches and followed them because of his (vine) and intelligence and was caught by two special stories made him loved
Nicholas Hami Kids
Nicolaus hid three children who had been killed because of their conversion to Christianity. They were placed in the circle of legends. Nicolaus said he found the bodies of the three children lying on the road and took them to his house in Mira. In a frenzy of anger, the father of one of the children Nicolaus was accused of killing the children, but Nicolas quietly opened a large wardrobe and quietly removed the bodies of the children. They had signs of murder known to the Romans, and the man was astonished. The news spread throughout Mira, and people knew what Nichols had done to his children. .
The story of Santa Claus ...
The second story of Nicolaus' relationship with Santa Claus or Santa Claus, who holds Christmas gifts for children, says that Nicholas, in the dark of the day, faced a difficult situation when he met a merchant in the city who had lost all his money. He had agreed with some of them to marry his three sisters in exchange for extinguishing his religion, and almost lost his sisters, but the bags of Nicholas filled with gold saved the merchant from his hook and returned his sisters (small) to their home. So the process of carrying the gift bags and placing them under the chimney became an annual habit.
Nicolaus was famous after his death in 342 AD after becoming a saint because of his good deeds, miracles and love for his children. He had an intercession and respect for the children and the sailors. He became a saint of the Azari, traders, prisoners and the owners of the banking offices, so that the three golden balls were still used. Banking) who dream of coming to them through the three golden bags of Nicholas.
Spread globally
The name Nicolaus spread from Greece to Russia in the sixth century and from there to Italy in the ninth century AD and then to all parts of Europe and the world. After his death, his body was placed in the mausoleum of the Church of Meira and became a center that attracts pilgrims, but the church collapsed by an earthquake that hit the region in the sixth century It was rebuilt by the 11th-century Emperor Justinian, who built the famous Istanbul Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. It was rebuilt by Turkish archaeologists in 1963, and visitors to the church and the tomb of Nicolaus continue to enter it. They go out through their high windows, wi Damon gifts and handouts of sweets and other for children, who are waiting for the coming of the (Santa Claus) in the Christmas and New Year.