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	Saint Nicholas Timeline

Spiritualmonkey

6-6-2009 9:59 PM

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1845
The Netherlands
A new picture book by Jan Schenkman shaped modern Dutch customs by establishing Sint Nicolaas arrival on a steamboat from Spain with a Moorish assistant. Crowds still enthusiastically greet their arrival each year in mid-November.

1864—1886
Thomas Nast draws Santa
Harper's Weekly features Nast's Santas with flowing beards, rotund shapes, fur suits, and clay pipes.

1931
Coca-Cola Santa
Each year from 1931 to 1964 Haddon Sundblom created a new Santa for Coca-Cola's "thirst knows no season" campaign. His life-size Santas in white fur-trimmed red suits are now the American Santa Claus.

1994
St. Nicholas Defense
Action committees in the Netherlands tell Santa Claus to stay away until after St. Nicholas Day, December 6th.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fd43efd3-a50c-4b00-91a0-0419e5e2e484/2D06A190-04A9-4716-B008-4DC330441841/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458" href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458" style="font-size: 11px;">www.stnicholascenter.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458"><B>AD 987 </B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458">St. Nicholas is Russia's favorite <A class="brown-text" href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=205#saint">saint</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.stnicholascenter.org/img/71FEABEC-6728-4C0F-9145-4CE140D83588" alt="19th C Russian Icon" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458"><B>1087</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458">Italian sailors took the bones of St. Nicholas to <A class="brown-text" href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=205#Bari">Bari</A>, Italy. This "translation of the <A class="brown-text" href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=205#relics">relics</A>" is commemorated in Bari with a fantastic festival each year on May 9th.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458"><B>1200s</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458">All over Europe boys were selected to be the "<A class="brown-text" href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=205#Nicholas+Bishop">Nicholas Bishop</A>" from December 6th through the Feast of the Holy Innocents (December 28th). Boy bishops and their retinues collected alms for the poor, but sometimes turned into disruptive roving gangs.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458"><TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="top"><TABLE width="90" cellpadding="5" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD valign="top"><A target="new" href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/stnic/images/time-1809-wmaster.jpg"><IMG width="90" border="0" src="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/stnic/images/time-1809.jpg" alt="1849 Irving-type" /><BR /></A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD valign="top"><B>1809</B><BR /><I><A class="brown-text" href="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=205#Washington+Irving%27s">Washington Irving's</A> St. Nicholas</I><BR /><I>Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of New York</I> describes St. Nicholas as an elfin Dutch burgher, not a saint, thus beginning the emergence of a dinstinctive American figure.<BR /><FONT class="black-text-sm"><BR />Illustration by Boyd, <I>A Visit from St. Nicholas</I>, 1849, facsimile edition, <I>St Nicholas Center Collection</I></FONT><I></I> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458"><B>1823</B> <I>A Visit from Saint Nicholas </I>or<I> 'Twas the Night Before Christmas</I><BR />First publication of the poem that became an American classic—and formed lasting images of an American St. Nicholas.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=458"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.stnicholascenter.org/img/C9F22CC1-4999-42FE-8765-5DE652AADE13" alt="Irving" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2D06A190-04A9-4716-B008-4DC330441841/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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