How old is Santa Claus
The original name of Santa Claus was Nicholas. In the fourth century, he was born in the city of Badala, Asia Minor. His family was rich and his parents were very enthusiastic Catholics. Unfortunately, his parents died young. When Nicholas grew up, he donated all his wealth to the poor and poor, while he became a monk himself, devoted himself to the church, and served the society all his life.
Nicholas later became a priest and was promoted to bishop. He has done a lot of charity work in his life. He likes to help the poor in secret. Santa Claus is his later nickname. This name comes from the story that he secretly sent money to help three girls.
It is said that not far from Nikolai lived three beautiful young girls, who were twenty, eighteen and sixteen years old. My father was a cold scholar, and he often lived by borrowing goods. Once, because he was unable to repay the debt, he had no choice but to sell his beautiful and healthy third daughter to the creditor and take him to Africa as a maid.
When the three daughters found out about this, they hugged each other and cried bitterly. The sadness at home can be imagined. Nikolai found out about this and went to their house to comfort him. At night, Nikolai put three long stockings of gold and hung them secretly by the windows of the three girls. They had gold and paid off their father’s debt, and the third daughter was spared the fate of being a maid. The next day was Christmas, and they knew that it was Nikolai who had done a good deed, and they invited him to celebrate and thank him. In the future, the three girls would tell this story every time it came to St. Yan’s Day. The children were very envious and hoped that Santa would come and give him a sock present.
Later, the wise parents who did not know that family began to give their children a sock gift in the name of Santa Claus. As a result, this habit has become popular in Europe and the United States. Nicholas later became the bishop of Mira, and because he was an orphan when he was a child, he became a special protector of the orphans. After his death, the church canonized him as a saint.
His spirit of caring for orphans and helping the poor was passed down with Christmas. Later, there were many kind-hearted people in the world, who followed the spirit of Nicholas’ benevolence and donated a lot of goods, in the name of Santa Claus, to bring love to the poor, poor old people and orphans. Every year when Christmas comes, Santa Claus always appears all over the world, bringing warmth and happiness to thousands of children, lonely old people, and abandoned children. We hope that friends who live in wealth in the world are all Santa Claus, not only at Christmas, but even in peacetime, within the limits of their ability, to spread the brilliance of love in every corner of the world.
According to this legend, Santa Claus was in the 4th century and now is the 21st century. If Santa Claus is still alive, he should be more than 1700 years old!
