W.P. Chichel: Where did you go, real Santa?

wprawo.pl 1 year ago

On 6 December in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church there is simply a memory of Saint Nicholas the Miraclemaker of Mira, whose image was mutilated and secularized by Americans and Coca-Cola. alternatively of a Catholic bishop with a large heart, of Turkish origin, we now have a fat man with reindeer who is magical, as well as the holidays themselves (interesting what?), surviving in snow Lapland. In Russia and erstwhile russian satellites, however, russian communists created grandpa frost and snow. Thus the fact is rejected from both parts of Christendom. In the East, the cult of Saint Nicholas returns, and unfortunately in the West, the atheization continues faster than for the Soviets...

St. Nicholas is believed to have lived at the turn of the 3rd and 4th centuries. He was born in the ancient Patar in Licia, close the ruins, which present is the Turkish vacation town of Gelemiş. Even though he was born into a very wealthy family, he was modest, pious, and delicate to the needs of the mediocre from childhood. After his parents died, he decided to give distant all his wealth. An example of this was erstwhile he made 3 daughters of impoverished nobles get married, with the hidden money he planted at night. This may be incomprehensible to everyone, but the father decided to send the girls on the street to gain their own flesh due to the fact that the virgins without dowry were doomed to deficiency of interest. It was a tragedy of life for them. Even Dante mentions this event in his epic. Acting as Bishop of Mira (now Demre) – an ancient town in the southwest of modern Anatolia, he became celebrated for his miracles and for his aid to the mediocre and needy. For example, he was to pray to save fishermen during a violent storm from the inevitable drowning. That's why he takes honor as the patron saint of sailors and fishermen. During the plague that plagued his side, he served the infected with the hazard of his own life. St. Gregory I the large in the life of St. Nicholas says that during the persecution that broke out for Emperor Diocletian and Maximian (early IVth century) The saint has been imprisoned. He was released only by the Milan edict in 313, published by Constantine I the Great. erstwhile the emperor sentenced 3 young men of Mira to death penalty, for any crime, disproportionate to specified a harsh sentence, Saint Nicholas went personally to Constantinople to entreat his faithful, which resulted in a affirmative result. Santa Claus presented himself as guardian of the truths of the Church's religion and tradition and participated in the first common council in good (325), on which the bishops condemned Arius' mistakes and slapped him himself at any point. A very interesting aspect of his providence after death is provided by 1 of the applications that says that Santa Claus resurrected 3 students in the 13th century, murdered in anger by the hotelist for not being able to pay him off. They were connected by dismembered body parts.

Since the 9th century Santa was worshipped in east and Western Christianity as a saint and a miracle worker. The first known mentions talk of the existing cult of Nicholas due to the fact that he was buried in the basilica and pilgrims prayed at his grave. He was considered a martyr. The first life reminiscent of Bishop Mira was created in the 9th century in Byzantium. The life of Michael's 9th-century archmandrite pen conveys that on 6 December the festival of Nicholas was celebrated in Constantinople, which was treated as a worthy preparation for Christmas. Emperor Leon VI stated: “The enemy of humanity suffers defeat at all feast in honor of the saints, but he is most angry with the feast of Saint Nicholas due to the fact that it is celebrated worldwide.” In the West his remembrance was besides given the rank of a saint. The oldest of this message comes from an act of synods in Naples from the years 821 and 842. At the Synod in Oxford of 1222 the rank of this feast was raised on the calendar to the highest. In memory of Santa's body translation to Bari of 1087, a second vacation was established on 9 May. It was celebrated both in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches. The first known liturgical hymns in honor of the saint were created in the 9th century in confederate Italy. The Second Vatican Council ordered a revision of the worship of saints in the Catholic Church. A commission composed of theologians and historians was set up to propose the removal of the holidays of those characters whose existence was impossible to prove. It challenged the historicity of Nicholas, which sparked a lively discussion in which a crucial part of the hierarchy and the faithful stood up for the worship of the saint. Pope Paul VI decided on a compromise solution. In the 1969 edition of the Calendar of Romania, he abolished the festival on 6 December and decided that this day would be celebrated any alleged memory. Medieval hagiographic texts dedicated to Nicholas were besides removed from the calendar, leaving a short memo based on Stratelatis from the 6th century. Interestingly, the cult of the saint was so popular that since the 16th century, a evidence of the mention of that day of Nicholas was preserved on the Protestant calendars on 6 December. The name of the vacation was replaced by Santa Day.

In Poland, the cult of the saint was settled by Queen Rycheza, the wife of Lives II. The ruler, related to the Byzantine emperors, became attached to the Bishop of Mira fashionable at court in Constantinople, took from her grandmother, Teofano. It is only with the arrival of Rycheza on the Vistula River that the worship of Nicholas begins and temples at its call are formed from its foundation. In Poland, the cult of St Nicholas was erstwhile very popular. There are as many as 327 churches under his call today. After St. John the Baptist, and before St. Peter and Paul the most popular is St. Nicholas. The churches in Gdańsk and Elbląg are among the most popular. The altarmakers have the Holy much more, and the figures and images over a thousand. The saint perceived worship as the patron saint of virgins, sailors, fishermen, children, prisoners and bakers. He was counted among the 14 Advocates. Before his place was taken by St.Anthony Padewski, Saint Nicholas was called in all pressing needs.