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Comments on: Feast Of Saint Nicholas https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/12/06/feast-of-saint-nicholas-12/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:05:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/12/06/feast-of-saint-nicholas-12/comment-page-1/#comment-88855 Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:05:07 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=44286#comment-88855 In reply to Shirt.

Basically, the Puritans & Pilgrim in the Massachusetts Bay Colony didn’t tolerate any saints or decorations. They fined people who celebrated anything, including Christmas. Popular sentiment reestablished Christmas, but saints’ days/feasts/masses never made the cut of respectability among the Protestant majority. With the diversity of the current US population, getting anything done in December is a bit of a lost cause.

Well, yes, but the Lowlands get in trouble these days over “Black Pete”.

]]> By: Shirt https://whynow.dumka.us/2019/12/06/feast-of-saint-nicholas-12/comment-page-1/#comment-88854 Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:10:48 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=44286#comment-88854 Well, well. After 64 years I finally learn why the Dutch celebrate Kerstmis a couple of weeks before the US does. The real mystery, I guess, is why you all celebrate it so late!

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