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Christmas on other planets, when Christmas ends, from St. Nick to Santa, 12 days of Christmas code? . . . & Weird Questions

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Christians Will Be Among Those Who Go Wherever Humans Go

The original saint nicholas is a figure that we don't really know a huge amount about. He would have lived through the decian persecution, which was the final ma persecution of the church. The name santa claus evolved into christmas around 17 73 in the american colonies. Brought into english through dutch. In the 14 hundreds, we started having christmas in england sonified as sir christ Christmas. And by the 15 Hundreds, after the reformation, he became known as father christchrist. Eventually father christChristmas and canter claus sort of merged. So to day, in england, the santaClaus figure is known as christ Claus.

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