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St. Nicholas
Feast Day: December 6
Everyone likes to receive gifts! But someone must give these gifts to us! Nicholas was a saint who gave gifts to others. He was a great gift-giver!
Mostly, we just have legends about Nicholas’s gift-giving. But he must have been a good and generous man. How do we know this? Because the legends that grew up about him always tell about his gift-giving.
One legend says that Nicholas was born to parents who had lots of money. When he grew up, he gave most of this money away. He gave three big, heavy sacks of money to three young girls. Their father was going to make them do bad things. But with the money, they could leave home and get married.
People in Holland honor Nicholas by giving gifts to one another on his feast day. They give one another chocolate letters of their names. So if your name starts with S, you would get a chocolate S on Saint Nicholas’s feast day!
Connecting to Faith First®
Grade 3, chapter 9
