Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan

Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan
Title Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan PDF eBook
Author Charles W. Jones
Publisher
Pages 568
Release 1988
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780226407005

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Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan

Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan
Title Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan PDF eBook
Author Charles W. Jones
Publisher
Pages
Release 1977
Genre
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Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan

Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan
Title Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 558
Release 1988
Genre Christian saints
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Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari and Manhattan

Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari and Manhattan
Title Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari and Manhattan PDF eBook
Author Charles W. Jones
Publisher
Pages 558
Release 1978
Genre Christian saints
ISBN

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Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas
Title Saint Nicholas PDF eBook
Author Joe L. Wheeler
Publisher Thomas Nelson
Pages 194
Release 2010-10-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1595553762

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You know him as the rotund merry-maker in the red suit. But set aside the childhood myth. In this portrait, you’ll encounter the true St. Nicholas, a figure revered for his astonishing miracles and a humility that redirected all attention to God’s glory. You’ll be amazed to find St. Nicholas always turning up at just the right time—rescuing sailors from the certain death of a violent sea, saving three young women from a life of prostitution, and guarding an infant from the burns of a boiling bath. A tireless defender of God’s truth and His people, St. Nicholas’s wonderful and mysterious deeds illustrate, time and again, a heart for the weak, the poor, and the endangered—truly “the patron saint of practically everybody” and one of the most fascinating figures in all of Christian history. We learn about life through the lives of others. Their experiences, their trials, their adventures become our schools, our chapels, our playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church through prose as accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. Whether the person is D.L. Moody, Sergeant York, Saint Nicholas, John Bunyan, or William F. Buckley, we are now living in the world that they created and understand both it and ourselves better in the light of their lives. Their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires uniquely illuminate our shared experience.

The Real St. Nicholas

The Real St. Nicholas
Title The Real St. Nicholas PDF eBook
Author Louise Carus
Publisher Quest Books
Pages 234
Release 2002-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780835608138

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A collection of folktales and stories from throughout Europe reveals that the generosity and kindness attributed to Saint Nicholas goes beyond delivering toys to children.

Christmas in America

Christmas in America
Title Christmas in America PDF eBook
Author Penne L. Restad
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 240
Release 1996-12-05
Genre History
ISBN 0199923582

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The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.