Saint Nicholas Day is this Saturday. Because both my husband and I come from a German background, we follow family tradition and put shoes by the front door on the eve of Saint Nicholas Day which gets filled with goodies for the children. Read more about Saint Nicholas and Saint Nicholas Day traditions at the St. Nicholas Center.
Here's a nice cookie recipe for Speculaas cookies.
Coloring pages of Saint Nicholas.
Printable childrens stories
This is a beautifully illustrated childrens picture book of Saint Nicholas. We checked this one out from the library a few years ago:
I haven't read this one yet but it has two glowing reviews:
You can read an excerpt; I noticed in the excerpt that a painting by Fra Angelico is mentioned. It appears that classic paintings are used to illustrate this text. This looks really good.
A history of St. Nicholas of Myra, free and in public domain.
Excerpt: "While knighthood had its St. George, serfhood had its St. Nicholas. He was emphatically the saint of the
people ; the bourgeois saint invoked by the peaceable citizen, by the labourer who toiled for his daily bread, by the merchant who traded from shore to shore, by the mariner struggling with the stormy ocean. He was the protector of the weak against the strong, of the poor against the rich, of the captive, the prisoner, the slave ; he was the guardian of young marriageable maidens, of schoolboys,and especially of the orphan poor. In Russia, Greece, and throughout all Catholic Europe, children are still taught to reverence St. Nicholas, and to consider themselves as placed under his peculiar care : if they are good, docile, and attentive to their studies, St. Nicholas, on the eve of his festival, will graciously fill their cap or their stocking with dainties ; while he has, as certainly, a rod in pickle for the idle and unruly."
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