Santa Claus was
born in Patara (in modern-day Antalya province, Turkey) in the second half of
the 3 BC century. He was bishop in Myra in Lycia. Originally named St.
Nicholas, in many European countries, particularly in the former Tsarist Russia
was the most popular saint. In Germany' Freiburg, Italian cities of Bari and
Naples, the island of Sicily, St. Nicholas is in a special respected. He is
recognized as Santa Claus in the Dutch and English languages. Moreover, he is
known as the protector of the New York City in the U.S.A. In addition to this,
he is the protector of children in all over the world. All of these have led to
the creation of a type the legendary and very popular person who is Santa Claus
or St. Nicholas.
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| Santa Claus, Antalya |
Images of Santa
Claus were further popularized through Haddon Sundblom’s depiction of him for The
Coca-Cola Company’s Christmas advertising in the 1930s. The popularity of the image spawned urban
legends that Santa Claus was invented by The Coca-Cola Company or that Santa
wears red and white because they are the colors used to promote the Coca-Cola
brand.
In popular culture,
Santa Claus appears in the weeks before Christmas in department stores or shopping
malls, or at parties. Actually this is a North American tradition associated
with Santa Claus are derived from a number of Christmas traditions from various
countries.
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| St. Nicholas Church |
St. Nicholas Church is a monument
of Byzantine art in the history of the Middle Byzantine Period, the most outstanding
example of architectural style. In the 5th century AD, Myra (Demre) was the
state capital of Lycia. The Archbishop of Myra in Anatolia is the second
largest religious authority after the death of St. Nicholas, has played a major
role in the increase of the city's reputation. Each year thousands of foreign tourists
visit Santa Claus in the town of Demre in Antalya.
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| St. Nicholas Church-Antalya |
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| Myra-Antalya |
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ReplyDeleteThe original St. Nicholas lived in southwestern Turkey in the 4th century. As the bishop of Myra he was credited with doing a number of miracles involving sailors and children.
DeleteThe 19th century Santa was often shown wearing outfits of different colors: purple, green and blue in addition to red. This slowly faded out so that by the beginning of the 20th century the standard image of Santa Claus was a man in a red suit trimmed with white. The Coca-Cola company has often been cited for cementing the image of Santa with the colors red and white through a series of popular advertisements in the 1940's depicting Saint Nick enjoying their product (Coca-Cola's company colors are red and white). However, Santa was already well associated with these colors by that time. American artist Norman Rockwell had done a number of paintings with Saint Nick wearing red and white including A Drum for Tommy which appeared on the cover of The Country Gentleman in 1921. The truth is that by the time the Coke ads came out, Santa, in the public's mind, was already wearing only the modern version of his colors.
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