This was not the saintly bishop, rather an elfin Dutch burgher with a clay pipe. Nicholas Day that same year, he published the satirical fiction, Knickerbocker's History of New York, with numerous references to a jolly St. In January 1809, Washington Irving joined the society and on St. Nicholas as patron saint of both society and city. John Pintard, the influential patriot and antiquarian who founded the New York Historical Society in 1804, promoted St. Nicholas, the children's gift-giver.Īfter the American Revolution, New Yorkers remembered with pride their colony's nearly-forgotten Dutch roots. This society was similar to the Sons of St. George societies, rather than to honor St.
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Nicholas 1, primarily as a non-British symbol to counter the English St. In 1773 New York non-Dutch patriots formed the Sons of St. Nicholas visiting New York Dutch on New Years' Eve, thus adopting the English custom (New Year gift-giving had become the English custom in 1558, supplanting Nicholas, and this English custom lasted in New York until 1847). Nicholas, and several later accounts have St. Colonial Germans in Pennsylvania kept the feast of St. Nicholas to New Amsterdam, scholars find scant evidence of such traditions in Dutch New Netherland. What about the Dutch? Although it is almost universally believed that the Dutch brought St. The first Colonists, primarily Puritans and other Protestant reformers, did not bring Nicholas traditions to the New World. Nicholas, he survived on the European continent as people continued to place nuts, apples, and sweets in shoes left beside beds, on windowsills, or before the hearth. (It is ironic that fervent Puritan Christians began what turned into a trend to a more secular Christmas observance.) Because the common people so loved St. Nicholas-related customs, they had very little long-term success except in England where the religious folk traditions were permanently altered. Even though both reformers and counter-reformers tried to stamp out St. Nicholas had a difficult time during the 16th century Protestant Reformation which took a dim view of saints. Nicholas Ferry, now known as Jacksonville.
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In Florida, Spaniards named an early settlement St. On his first voyage, Columbus named a Haitian port for St. Vikings dedicated their cathedral to him in Greenland. The first Europeans to arrive in the New World brought St. How did the kindly Christian saint, good Bishop Nicholas, become a roly-poly red-suited American symbol for merry holiday festivity and commercial activity? History tells the tale. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1881 Nicholas," colonial Dutch life, Albany, NY. Nick, & American Santa, from Santa Claus Comes to America, by Caroline Singer & Cyrus Baldridge, Alfred Knopf, 1942 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin on Pinterest email Print Bishop St.