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 name and person of Santa Claus comes from Saint Nicholas, with heavy doses of local cultural influence, particularly from the Protestant countries of Northern Europe, where veneration of saints was abolished. America contributed Santa's elfish quality.

This page concerns primarily the Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus connection. 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. This used to be on Ken Collins' Web Site, but is now retrieved from Web Archive.
• The Legend of Saint Nicholas. Page is retrieved from Web Archive.
• Saint Nicholas
• The Many Names of Santa Claus

Especially Dutch

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

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