Showing posts with label Saint Nicholas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saint Nicholas. Show all posts

Why Do Turks Believe in Santa Claus?

 


A large number of Turks believe that Santa Claus was a real person

Dec 25, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

Ankara.

Their Santa Claus, however, is not the contemporary fairy tale old man with a long white beard who rides his sleigh from the North Pole, but a saint who was called Saint Nicholas [in Turkish Aziz Nikola].

Bulgaria marks the Day of Saint Nicholas, the Miracle Worker

 


Dec 6, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

On December 6, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks the Day of Saint Nicholas, the Miracle Worker.