St Nicholas Day
December 6 – Today is St. Nicholas Day. Well,
actually, it’s 10:00 at night and this is the second time I’ve written this because it went away the first time, so with one thing and another, you’re not going to have much time to celebrate St. Nicholas Day. In our family,
we always made very intricately decorated cookies shaped liked St Nicholas, and gave them to the neighbor children. We stopped doing it when my children rebelled. They were tired of making all of those gorgeous cookies and not getting to eat any. Sometimes you have to think ahead to the logical consequences of your actions.
Many people celebrate December 6 as Little
Christmas with special gifts and trinkets for the family.
St. Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra. He is the patron saint of practically everybody, sailors, the navy, protection from storms, most especially small children. He is also the patron saint of brides. He got to be the
patron saint of brides when he would ride under the window of girls to poor to be married, and he would toss into their rooms bags of money big enough for their dowries.
Now, that’s what I call creative gifting.
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