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Home falls, Santa rises
The original Saint Nicholas was an omeiy zealot who, 17 centuries ago, spent many years in prison for defending Christianity, until the Roman general Constantine “saw the light” and made Christianity Rome’s official religion.
After his' death, Saint Nicholas became the patron saint of children, as well as sailors, prostitutes, moneylenders and thieves.
Time warp to 1822: a scholarly writer named Clement Clarke Moore pens a “foolish trifle” for his family. Despite Moore’s efforts to keep the “trifle” a family secret, an unsigned version of “Twas the night before Christmas ...” showed up later in a New York newspaper.
Fourteen years later, Moore took credit for his poem. Then, in 1862, artist Thomas Nast, inventor of both the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey, found himself inspired by Moore’s poem — inspired enough to create a jolly and rotund man dressed in red.
Seventy years later, artist Haddon Sundblom made the happy red guy a Coca-Cola spokesman and the rest is history.
Thus, as the consumer rampage swells and some bemoan the lost “meaning” of the season, it seems a fortuitous time to see the holidays through different eyes.
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