How not to recall with nostalgia and happiness both in this wonderful festival of a happy childhood.?
For the record, Saint Nicolas is celebrated on December 6 of each year in several European countries and in eastern France (Alsace and Lorraine in particular).
It relates to the legend of Saint Nicolas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (born in the year 270).
Saint Nicolas is also the patron saint of Lorraine, Russians, Fribourg, students and schoolchildren.
Any part of a frightening legend that St. Nicolas would have risen three young children killed by a hideous butcher of the region.
is why he became the patron saint of schoolchildren, children who have been good if the entire year receive sweets and gifts, the feast of this saint, is Dec. 6.
The naughty children, according to legend, are not entitled to the largesse of the good saint, but the whip issued by the bogeyman, symbolizing the horrible butcher, who agreed to make amends to accompany the saint in all his travels!
In fact, in many countries, Saint Nicolas the ancestor of Father Christmas (Santa Claus).
In Belgium, children are lucky: in the same month, they receive twice as gifts!
For me, it evoked this festival is the mystery and wonder!
soon as we age to understand, we waited on December 6 with growing impatience as and as the date approached.
Our parents explained that if one were wise, good and obedient student in school, on the night of December 5 to 6, the great saint (who saw and heard everything from the sky where we watching!) throw in the fireplace sweets and toys.
an aside at the time of my childhood, there were still many open fires and fireplace in the old houses!
We also had the right, in about a month before the festival, put our shoes by the fireplace before going to bed.
And if we had been particularly wise, how fortunate thing in the morning to find a small gift or candy in his shoe!
By cons, if we were villains, beware: The bogeyman we might make a very nasty surprise!
Supreme Happiness, if we had fortunate to have a big family, not only brought us Saint Nicolas wonderful gifts from our parents, but also among our grandparents.
was then a race along with my sister, my brother and my cousins in different parts of the houses of my two grandmothers, to find where we had met Saint Nicolas!
What happiness innocence and credulity that allowed us to believe in such marvels, and to have the beating heart of expectation and happiness before the holidays.
What a shame too, when we were growing up and around the age of 7 years, we learned often at school that St. Nicolas did not exist, but it was our parents who were playing that role!
Ah, I remember again: what a disappointment the day when "I became a" great "and when I saw the wonderful and the other fairies and legends that made me happy flying .....
But also, what joy to resurrect the magic moments, like no other for his own children, and then even later for her grandchildren.
And if, as my father was fortunate to know them, perpetuate these hours of happiness for her great-grandchildren.
In Belgium, St Nicolas is also the patron of students, December 6, all students of different faculties of Liege form a large procession through the streets of the city and ends in "guindaille. But this I leave to my son the task of telling you! because it is a story very different from mine.
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