George in the England he patronizes but there are 446 to St. According to Bond, there are 204 dedications to St. Yet Professor Börsting has pointed out the incompleteness of these figures by indicating how, in the single diocese of Münster, there were fifty dedications, not eight, as Meisen calculated. For example, according to Meisen's census there were 2,137 ecclesiastical dedications to Nicholas in France, Germany, and the Low Countries alone before the year 1500. Nicholas was, before the Reformation, the most intensive of any nonbiblical saint in Christendom. Visit from Saint Nicholas, 1862 editionĪccording to the consensus of informed historians 1, the cult of St. Jones carefully recounts the evidence that Santa Claus was the creation of 19th century patriots, rather than a hold-over from the Dutch colonial period. An account of the true development of Santa Claus in New York and thereafter throughout the United States.
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