Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

The Santa Claus Connection

Part of the Saint Nicholas Page honoring Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

Santa Claus, San Niklaus, Sinter Klaas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas

The story of Santa Claus is inextricable from Saint Nicholas of Myra. The former derives from the latter, with heavy doses of local cultural influence, particularly from the Protestant countries of Northern Europe, where veneration of saints was abolished. The elfish quality was added in America.

The links here concern primarily the Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus connection. Left to others is the promotion of Santa without the saint. For additional accounts dealing more with Saint Nicholas and less with Santa, see the Saint Nicholas links.

The links on this page take you to other sites on the Internet. No endorsement of those sites is implied. Items found there may well be copyrighted.

Saint Nicholas a short history
Santa Claus with St. Nicholas as intro
Christmas in Slovakia(hymn to St. Nicholas - Carpatho-Rusyn)
Saint Nicholas from Catholic Online Saints
St.Nicholas history from the Santa Claus home page
Printable poster of Santa Claus, courtesy of Aaron Shepard's "World of Story".
Saint Nicholas on his native territory - now Turkey. One of the sites of the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Pages.
Putting Santa Claus back into Christmas
Saints by Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester. From the Middle Ages pages.
The Real St. Nick Christian Articles Archive (TM)
Santa Was A Christian
Saint Nicholas
The Naming of the Deer, or, Why Clement Moor, with the Collaboration of St. Nicholas, Gave Those Odd Names to the Eight Deer, by William E. Studwell, Northern Illinois University. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Christmas Facts, with origin of Saint Nicholas & Santa Claus. From Ken Collins' Web Site.
The Legend of Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas
The Many Names of Santa Claus

Especially Dutch

The people of Holland, er, the Netherlands, uh, the Dutch, greatly enjoy the celebration of the arrival of Sinterklaas. Some additional links may be found in the miscellaneous Saint Nicholas page under cooking.

The True Story of Santa Claus, a summary of the life of Saint Nicholas followed by how he morphed into Santa Claus. From The Holland Ring.
Saint Nicholas in the Netherlands
Sinter Klaus song from The Real Saint Nicholas
Hello, Sinterklassje!. A trove of links to sites in many languages and lots of good information about the Dutch celebration of Saint Nicholas.

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Last modified November 14, 2007.