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Are there still a lot of days till Christmas ? Well, there are 6 days to be exact or , seconds! How many days until Christmas Eve? Santa will be making his famous Christmas Eve flight in 5 sleeps. You can see exactly when he will arrive at your house on Santa's homepage. But will he bring me back some nice haggis from Scotland?
No, he forgets every year! How many days until Christmas ? OK, you have serious Christmas issues if you need to know how many days until Christmas already! Christmas Eve is in sleeps. Are you happy now? I'll bet you finished all your holiday baking too? How many shopping days until Christmas? There are 6 shopping days before Christmas And I haven't even started my list yet! Everyone is getting haggis fruitcake again this year! How many weeks till Christmas ? I can count how many weeks until Christmas! The answer to how many weeks to Christmas is: There are you happy?
Ok, ok, I was just being a grumpy elf.
There are 0 more weeks to December 25th, ! How do elves countdown to Christmas? But if YOU want to countdown to Christmas, there are 6 days to go. That big Countdown clock up there? The one that says 7, minutes left? How many sleeps till Christmas? If you don't include all of Santa's naps, there are 6 more sleeps before Christmas! And how many Saturdays till Christmas? Why does everyone want to know how many Saturdays till Christmas? Why doesn't anybody want to know how many Fridays till Christmas? What's wrong with Fridays? What day is days before Christmas?
Oh, sure, give me a tough question! Let's see, days before Christmas is subtract from December, carry the I'll bet you didn't think I could figure that one out did you! Oh great, now someone will want to know 99 days until Christmas is September! What about a Christmas Calendar? You mean one of those Advent Calendars?
Of course there's a Christmas Calendar right here. But don't blame me if someone ate all the chocolates! When is Christmas Eve ? Christmas Eve is December 24th, What?
I'm a grumpy elf! Did you really think I was going to tell you it was 5 days away? How many more days til Santa comes? When does Santa Claus come? When will Santa Claus be here? Oh, that's Top Secret! I have to check to see if you're on the Nice List first. Then I can tell you the answer to when Santa Claus comes to your home is 6 days Oops! I wasn't supposed to say that!
How many minutes to Merry Christmas? But, officially, I guess it's 7, minutes to when you can say "Merry Christmas", officially. Is that official enough for you?
One story tells of him helping some sailors that were caught in a dreadful storm off the coast of Turkey. The storm was raging around them and all the men were terrified that their ship would sink beneath the giant waves. They prayed to St. Nicholas to help them. Suddenly, he was standing on the deck before them. He ordered the sea to be calm, the storm died away, and they were able to sail their ship safely to port. Nicholas was exiled from Myra and later put in prison during the persecution by the Emperor Diocletian.
No one is really knows when he died, but it was on 6th December in either or In , his bones were stolen from Turkey by some Italian merchant sailors. The bones are now kept in the Church named after him in the Italian port of Bari. Nicholas feast day 6th December , the sailors of Bari still carry his statue from the Cathedral out to sea, so that he can bless the waters and so give them safe voyages throughout the year.
Nicholas asking that his conquest would go well. You can find out lots about about St Nicholas at the St.
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In the 16th Century in northern Europe, after the reformation, the stories and traditions about St. But someone had to deliver presents to children at Christmas, so in the UK , particularly in England, he became 'Father Christmas' or 'Old Man Christmas', an old character from stories plays during the middle ages in the UK and parts of northern Europe.
In some countries including parts of Austria and Germany , present giver became the 'Christkind' a golden-haired baby, with wings, who symbolizes the new born baby Jesus. Many countries, especially ones in Europe, celebrate St. Nicholas' Day on 6th December.
In Holland and some other European Countries, children leave clogs or shoes out on the 5th December St. Nicholas Eve to be filled with presents. They also believe that if they leave some hay and carrots in their shoes for Sinterklaas's horse, they will be left some sweets. Nicholas became popular again in the Victorian era when writers, poets and artists rediscovered the old stories. In the famous poem 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' or 'T'was the Night before Christmas', was published. Dr Clement Clarke Moore later claimed that he had written it for his children. Some scholars now believe that it was actually written by Henry Livingston, Jr.
The poem describes St.
Nicholas with eight reindeer and gives them their names. They became really well known in the song 'Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer', written in Do you know all eight names? Click on Rudolph's nose to find out! Did you know that Rudolph and Santa's other reindeers might well be all girls!?
Only female reindeer keep their antlers throughout winter. By Christmas time most males have discarded their antlers and are saving their energy ready to grow a new pair in the spring. Some people say that Santa lives at the North Pole. In Finland, they say that he lives in the north part of their country called Lapland. But everyone agrees that he travels through the sky on a sledge that is pulled by reindeer, that he comes into houses down the chimney at night and places presents for the children in socks or bags by their beds, in front of the family Christmas tree, or by the fire place.
Most children receive their presents on Christmas Eve night or early Christmas morning, but in some countries they get their presents on St. Nicholas' Eve, December 5th.